Meno v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dorchester County (JoNes and Toadvix, JJ.). The appellant was tried under an indictment for the murder of one Nellie Robinson, by causing her, without any legal justification or excuse, a miscarriage and abortion; being found guilty and sentenced to six years in the State Penitentiary, this apxDeal was taken.
1Opinion of the CourtStocicbRidge, J.
The appellant in this ease was indicted, tried and convicted for having caused the death of Nellie Robinson by an abortion practiced upon her. The exceptions are twenty in number, though the points involved were considerably less, as exceptions were reserved to rulings” of the Court upon offers of evidence where the same legal proposition was involved in repeated tenders. The most important is the question of the admissibility of the dying declaration of the deceased, which forms the basis of the 10th and 20th exceptions.
What is necessary to render a dying declaration admissible has been so…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- State v. PearceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
- Worthington v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1901
- Lamb v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1886
- Smartt and Carson v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1903
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896
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- Wilson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1942
- Berger v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1941
- Lane v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1961
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