State v. Priest
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Respondents were indicted for the crime of murder at the September term of the Supreme Judicial Court, Piscataquis County. After trial, respondents were both found guilty. Respondents duly filed an appeal and also exceptions to certain rulings of presiding Justice. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
In the early evening of Tuesday, March 14, 1916, the body of one George Herbert was' discovered by two neighbors lying on the floor of his camp, face downward in a pool of blood. This camp was located at Rand Cove in Lake View Plantation, at a remote and somewhat secluded spot between Schoodic Lake and a branch of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad known as the Medford cut-off. Herbert was last seen alive about noon of the previous day. He was *225a man seventy-two or seventy-three years of age, whose history and antecedents were unknown, and who had lived alone in this camp for several years, a…
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