White v. Territory
Washington Territory
Error to the District Court holding terms at Tacoma. Second District. All the necessary facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Jones
The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first *400•degree, committed in the county of Pierce, July 17, 1885, upon the person of one James McMillan.
He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary.
The facts gleaned from the record, and about which there seems no dispute, are these:
In January, 1878, the defendant William White bought the Connell & Williamson donation claims, about 640 acres, -and went into possession thereof. During the month he executed and delivered a mortgage to James G. Williams on the above property for $2,400, and payable in one…
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