People v. Hamilton
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Newaygo. (Palmer, J.) Respondent was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to State prison for life. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, C. J.
The respondent was tried in the Newaygo circuit court on an information charging him with murder, and the jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree, and on the twenty-first day of. March, 1888, he was sentenced by the court to imprisonment for life.
He was charged, and found guilty, of whipping his little girl, about 19 months old, with his hands and with whips, in •such a cruel manner that she. died of the injuries thus received.
It is alleged that the whippings occurred between October *214and the fourth day of December, 1887, and that the child died in convulsions on the seventh day…
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