People v. Tyler
Michigan Supreme Court
Case reserved from St. Clair Circuit. On the fourth day of February, 1859, defendant was indicted in the Circuit Court for the county of St. Clair for murder.
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Case reserved from St. Clair Circuit. On the fourth day of February, 1859, defendant was indicted in the Circuit Court for the county of St. Clair for murder. The indictment charged that Tyler, on the twenty-ninth] day of November, 1858, “with force and arms, on navigable waters without the limits of the state, in and on board the brig Concord then and there being in the river St. Clair, without the limits of the state of Michigan, in and upon one Henry Jones in the peace of God then and there being, feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault, and that the…
1Concurrence
Christiancy J.:
I fully concur with my brother Campbell in the opinion given by him in this case, not only in the result, but generally in the process of reasoning by which the result is reached. And in an ordinary case I should be content with this declaration, without expressing any views of my own. But as he has not alluded to all the considerations which tend to the same conclusions (though, I think, fully sufficient to sustain them) and as he has contented himself with a slight reference to some principles which will bear further illustration, the great importance of the case itself, as…
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