Tuttle v. People

Plaintiffs in error were convicted of the murder of Joseph Meenan. The first point we shall consider relates to the admissibility of statements made by the defendants at the coroner’s inquest. They were subpoenaed as witnesses to appear before the coroner’s jury, then engaged in investigating the cause of the death of deceased and ascertaining the guilty parties, and were duly sworn and testified before that body. At this time the defendants were not under arrest, nor had any information been filed against them, but they were suspected of being guilty *245of Meenan’s murder, and knew that they…