State v. Shoultz
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. I. The evidence offered by defendant was clearly competent and should have been admitted. The condition of Shoultz’s mind was an important consideration for the jury in passing upon his guilt or innocence.
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Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. I. The evidence offered by defendant was clearly competent and should have been admitted. The condition of Shoultz’s mind was an important consideration for the jury in passing upon his guilt or innocence. The evidence shows him to be a weak and crippled boy ; deformed from his infancy; always sick and often unable to walk or help himself, and of so frail a fabric that an ordinary blow from the fist of the deceased would have been sufficient to take his life. This had a powerful effect upon his mind, and when he saw his hand raised against him, a sense of…
1Opinion of the CourtRyland, Judge
Israel Shoultz was .indicted at the July term, A. D. 1856, of the St. Louis Criminal Court, for the murder of Henry In-kamp. At the January term, 1857, he was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. He moved for a new trial; his motion was overruled, and he brings the case here by appeal.
The record shows the following statement of the facts of the case : Dr. William Taussig, produced and sworn on the part of the State, deposes and says: I am a physician by profession, and reside in Carondelet, St. Louis county. I know defendant Shoultz — ever since I resided there — and was also *131acq…
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