Roberts v. People

I dissent.

The decision sustaining the conviction of Roberts, the plaintiff in error, as accessory to murder after the fact is, I think, contrary to sound reason and subversive of basic principles for the judicial determination of facts under the American system of jurisprudence. Assigning numerous errors, Roberts asks for a reversal.

This is not an ordinary case. In two separate trials, Roberts and one Wier had previously been acquitted of the alleged murder of one Butler. The record herein shows that the killing charged in each of these two cases was the identical killing as to which Roberts…