Housh v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Antelope county. Tried . below before Robinson, J. cited: Wharton, Criminal Law [9th ed.], secs. 488, 489; Clark v. State, 32 Neb., 246; Long v. State, 23 Neb., 51; Billings v. State, 107 Iud., 54; Gandy v. State, 23 Neb., 448. cited: Gallagher v. State, 3 Minn., 185; People v. Williams, 32 Cal., 280; People v. Campbell, 30 Cal., 312; Rasberry v. State, 1 Tex.
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Error to the district court for Antelope county. Tried . below before Robinson, J. cited: Wharton, Criminal Law [9th ed.], secs. 488, 489; Clark v. State, 32 Neb., 246; Long v. State, 23 Neb., 51; Billings v. State, 107 Iud., 54; Gandy v. State, 23 Neb., 448. cited: Gallagher v. State, 3 Minn., 185; People v. Williams, 32 Cal., 280; People v. Campbell, 30 Cal., 312; Rasberry v. State, 1 Tex. App., 664; Steioart v. State, 1 O. St., 66; People v. Anderson, 44 Cal., 65; State v. Quin, 3 Brev. [S. Car.], 568; People v. Loe, 1 Mich., 451; Patten v. People, 18 Mich., 314; Cotton v. State, 31 Miss.,…
1Opinion of the CourtPost, J.
The facts of this case must have appealed strongly to the sympathies of the jury, as they certainly do to ours. On the day of the homicide the prisoner, a small and feeble man, weighing less than 135 pounds, and a cripple, his left leg having been amputated above the knee, was three times assaulted by the deceased, a man weighing nearly 200 pounds. On each occasion the prisoner was thrown to the ground and violently choked by the deceased, who was at the time intoxicated, and who during one of such assaults is shown to have threatened the prisoner’s life. The only apparent provocation for…
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- Hill v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1894
- State v. BohanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
- Carr v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1888
- St. Louis v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1879
- Long v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1888
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- Carleton v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1895
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