State v. Towers
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was indicted in the district court for Crow Wing county for the felonious killing of one Albert Hagadorn and was convicted of murder in the third degree and sentenced to state prison for twenty-five years. The facts are stated near the end of the opinion. From an order, McClenahan, J., denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, he appealed.
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Defendant was indicted in the district court for Crow Wing county for the felonious killing of one Albert Hagadorn and was convicted of murder in the third degree and sentenced to state prison for twenty-five years. The facts are stated near the end of the opinion. From an order, McClenahan, J., denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, he appealed. On the question of insanity the court charged the jury that, when the defendant undertakes to establish the defense of insanity, the burden is on him to establish affirmatively by a fair, reasonable preponderance of the evidence the nonexistence…
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The defendant, Henry Towers, was convicted of the crime of murder in the third degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of twenty five years. On appeal to this court he contends that a new trial should have been granted because (1) of the misconduct of the county attorney; (2) error in the admission, over objection, of evidence tending to show an encounter between the appellant and another man three years prior to the homicide; (3) in refusing to define the offense of manslaughter in the first degree,, or submit to the jury whether the defendant was guilty of…
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