State v. Young
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from LaFayette Criminal Court. — Hon. J. E. Ryland, Judge. (1) The court committed error in permitting the witness, W. R. Jackson, to testify as to an alleged confession or statement, alleged to have been made by defendant to said witness in the mayor’s office in the town of Corder. First.
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Appeal from LaFayette Criminal Court. — Hon. J. E. Ryland, Judge. (1) The court committed error in permitting the witness, W. R. Jackson, to testify as to an alleged confession or statement, alleged to have been made by defendant to said witness in the mayor’s office in the town of Corder. First. Because it was claimed by said witness that said statement, confession or conversation, was reduced to writing, signed by defendant and witnessed by said witness Jackson and one J. M. Livengood. Second. Because said written statement was then in the hands of the state, and in court, and that said…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
The defendant was indicted in the LaFayette criminal court, March term, 1888, for murder in the first degree, for the alleged stabbing and killing of one Stephen Ferguson, at Corder, LaFayette county, Missouri on the night of December 10, 1887.
He was tried at the March term, 1889, convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hung. From that conviction, an appeal was prosecuted to this court, and upon a hearing the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded. State v. Young, 99 Mo. 666. At the adjourned March term, 1890, of the criminal court of LaFayette county, defendant was…
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