State v. Swift
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder in the first degree, in the killing of Catherine J. Swift, the prisoner’s wife; in the Superior Court in Hartford County. The ease was tried to the jury upon the plea of “not guilty,” before Sanford, J. Verdict “ guilty of murder in the first degree,” and appeal by the prisoner.
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Indictment for murder in the first degree, in the killing of Catherine J. Swift, the prisoner’s wife; in the Superior Court in Hartford County. The ease was tried to the jury upon the plea of “not guilty,” before Sanford, J. Verdict “ guilty of murder in the first degree,” and appeal by the prisoner. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. 1. To prove deliberation and premeditation the State relied upon the testimony of George F. Bill, of the Hartford police, relating to a confession of the defendant. He testified that the prisoner told him that “ he had the pistol in his pocket the…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The indictment in this case charges the defendant with the commission of the crime of murder in the first degree, perpetrated upon the person of his wife.
On the trial in the court below, the attorney for the State palled one George F. Bill, the captain of the police force of the city of Hartford, as a witness in support of the prosecution, who testified “ that he had been connected with the *503police force nearly twenty-one years; that on the day of the homicide the defendant was brought to the station by officer Steele, who delivered to him a revolver; that he asked the defendant why he shot…
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