State v. Harrington
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Lincoln County. A difficulty occurred about two o’clock on the morning of July 6, 1873, in the chop-house of John H. Lynch, in the town of Pioche, Lincoln County. Defendant J ames Harrington, Lynch, Frank Schoonmaker, one O’Neil, and one Sullivan were present. Sullivan seized hold of a dog belonging to Schoonmaker and the result was a quarrel in' which all the parties became more or less involved.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Lincoln County. A difficulty occurred about two o’clock on the morning of July 6, 1873, in the chop-house of John H. Lynch, in the town of Pioche, Lincoln County. Defendant J ames Harrington, Lynch, Frank Schoonmaker, one O’Neil, and one Sullivan were present. Sullivan seized hold of a dog belonging to Schoonmaker and the result was a quarrel in' which all the parties became more or less involved. Words led to blows, and in the melee it seems Harrington’s pistol was fired three times, inflicting five wounds, one on the side of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Belknap, J.:
The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree upon an indictment accusing him in the following *94manner of murder: “That the said James Harrington, in the town of Pioche in the said County of Lincoln, State of Nevada, on the sixth day of July, a. d. 1873, or thereabouts, without the authority of law and with malice aforethought did shoot one John H. Lynch with a pistol, and from the wounds produced from the shooting the said John H. Lynch died in the said town of Pioche, County of Lincoln, State of Nevada, on or about the eleventh day of July, 1873.” This…
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