Caw v. People
Nebraska Supreme Court
The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, tried and found guilty of manslaughter at tbe March term, -A. D. 1873, of the district court of Richardson county.
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The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, tried and found guilty of manslaughter at tbe March term, -A. D. 1873, of the district court of Richardson county. Upon the trial of the cause before Mr. Justice Gantt, sitting in that court, and a jury, the plaintiff in error testified on his own behalf that the deceased approached to within two feet of him; that the deceased had his right hand and fist drawn up towards his chest; that he, the prisoner, thought he saw a stick or club in the right hand of deceased, and that the deceased was about to strike him; that he then struck the deceased…
1Opinion of the Court
Lake, Ch. J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted and tried for the crime of murder, found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eight years.
Several exceptions were taken, on behalf of the plain-tiff in error, during the trial in the district court, to the admission and rejection of certain testimony, but we perceive no just ground for complaint in this respect, as only a very small portion of the testimony was preserved in the bill of exceptions.
The record before us shows that the prisoner offered to prove that the deceased, some time after he received the…
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