Legal Opinion
Shults v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 1893No. 5527PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Error to the district court for Hall county. Tried below before Harrison, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Ryan, C.
Cuyler Shults was convicted in the district court of Hall' county, Nebraska, of the murder of J. P. Farr,-charged to have been committed in said county on the 28th day of August, 1891. There was no question that said Farr came to his death at the time and place charged from the effect of a gunshot wound inflicted upon him by said Shults. The defense was insanity, of which there was much evidence. It was shown that the accused was wounded in the right side of the head by a fragment of a shell on the 6th of April, 1862, at the battle of Shiloh; that since his discharge from the federal…
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