State v. Allen
Supreme Court of Connecticut
■ Indictment for murder in the first degree, in the Superioi Court in Hartford County. The prisoner filed the following motion to be discharged:— And the said William Allen in his own proper person Cometh into court here, and having heard the said indictment read, saith that the said State of Connecticut ought not to further prosecute the said indictment against him; because he saith that heretofore, to wit, at a criminal term of said court, liolden at Hartford within and…
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■ Indictment for murder in the first degree, in the Superioi Court in Hartford County. The prisoner filed the following motion to be discharged:— And the said William Allen in his own proper person Cometh into court here, and having heard the said indictment read, saith that the said State of Connecticut ought not to further prosecute the said indictment against him; because he saith that heretofore, to wit, at a criminal term of said court, liolden at Hartford within and for the county of Hartford on the first Tuesday of March, A. D. 1878, the said Allen in due form of law, upon an…
1Opinion of the Court
Beardsley, J.*
The facts upon which the questions of law reserved for our consideration in this case arise are contained in the finding of the Superior Court at its August term, 1878, and also the finding of that court at its March term, 1878, upon the motion of the prisoner to be discharged from custody, the allegations of which motion were found to be true, except so far as they were varied by the prior finding referred to.
Those facts are in substance as follows:—At said March term the accused was placed on trial before a jury legally impaneled and sworn, upon an indictment charging him with…
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