State v. Gallivan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment against the defendant jointly with Thomas M. Wormsley, for murder in the first degree. Having asked and been granted a separate trial, he was tried to the jury (George W Wheeler, J.'). Verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and sentence to imprisonment for life in the State’s Prison, from which he appealed, alleging errors in the conduct of the trial. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The indictment charges the defendant in one count with murder committed in the course of an attempt to rob Shumway, the murdered man, and in another with murder committed while actually robbing him. Wormsley, who was indicted with him, was a witness for the State, and testified that both he- and the defendant made á murderous assault upon Shumway for the purpose of robbery, and actually robbed him of a considerable sum in bank bills before he died; that one of them, for 120, he soon afterwards had changed at the store of one Sherman; and that most of the rest was taken by the defendant to…
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