Thompson v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court for Cherry county. Tried below before Harrington, J. 'Che witness Milliman swore that the witness and the deceased were entering the defendant’s domicile with intent to extort money from the defendant by putting him in fear of the loss of his reputation.
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Error from the district court for Cherry county. Tried below before Harrington, J. 'Che witness Milliman swore that the witness and the deceased were entering the defendant’s domicile with intent to extort money from the defendant by putting him in fear of the loss of his reputation. “If any person shall forcibly, and by violence, or by putting in fear, take from the person of another any money or personal property, of any value whatever, with the intent to rob or steal, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of robbery.” Criminal Code, sec. 13. The foregoing statute is declaratory…
1Opinion of the CourtSullivan, J.
In the district court for Cherry county Cicero H. Thompson was found guilty óf murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for fifteen *212years. The conviction apparently was the result of erroneous rulings, and must, therefore, be set aside. We can not consider in detail all the specifications of error discussed by counsel. They are altogether too numerous to be given separate treatment. For the most part they depend upon a few principles which, if recognized and properly applied, will prevent on another trial a repetition of the errors of which the defendant…
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