Hilands v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and. Terminer of Mercer county : Of October Term, 1886, No. 223. Indictment for manslaughter found against James W. Hi-lands. The following are the facts of the case, as they appeared before Mehard, P. J.:— The defendant in this case was tried at No. 1, March Term, 1885, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Mercer county, Pa., and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hung.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and. Terminer of Mercer county : Of October Term, 1886, No. 223. Indictment for manslaughter found against James W. Hi-lands. The following are the facts of the case, as they appeared before Mehard, P. J.:— The defendant in this case was tried at No. 1, March Term, 1885, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Mercer county, Pa., and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hung. A writ of error was taken to the Supreme Court at No. 89, October and November Term, 1885, and the action of the court below was reversed, and afterwards the defendant was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
*380The plaintiff was indicted and convicted in the court below of involuntary manslaughter. When called upon to plead to the indictment he filed a special’plea setting forth the fact that he had been indicted and tried in the same court upon the charge of murder; that upon such previous trial the jury had convicted him of murder in the first degree; that the judgment in that case had been reversed by the Supreme Court, and that he had been discharged from said indictment; that the indictment for involuntary manslaughter involves the same facts and circumstances as were involved in the charge of…
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