State v. Bradley
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for murder. Trial by jury at the June term, 1890, Royce, Oh. J., presiding. Verdict of murder in the second degree. Exceptions by the respondent. The respondent was indicted for the murder of one Maggie Mattison, who, although the wife of another man, had been living with the respondent for some two years before her death. The murder was committed at the house of one Dillworth.
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Indictment for murder. Trial by jury at the June term, 1890, Royce, Oh. J., presiding. Verdict of murder in the second degree. Exceptions by the respondent. The respondent was indicted for the murder of one Maggie Mattison, who, although the wife of another man, had been living with the respondent for some two years before her death. The murder was committed at the house of one Dillworth. The evidence of the State tended to show that the death of the deceased was occasioned by a wound in the heart, inflicted by some sharp-pointed instrument, and that it might have been made by a knife which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ROSS, Ch. J.
I. On trial, the witness Oole, after having testified that soon after the homicide, Bolger, who was present at the time of the homicide, would speak out and say that Bradley, the respondent, killed the woman, — was asked, against the exception of the respondent, “ what was his appearance then ? ” lie answered first “ It kinder seemed as though he didn’t want it laid to him,” and again, “ He seemed kinder worried that it should be laid to him, and would turn it off in this way, that she died of heart disease; he said that she had it and he…
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