State v. Shaw
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment Eor murder. Trial by jury, Windsor County, June Term, 1900, Munson, J., presiding. Verdict guilty of murder in the first degree. The respondent excepted. Judgment and sentence respited and cause passed to the Supreme Court.
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Indictment Eor murder. Trial by jury, Windsor County, June Term, 1900, Munson, J., presiding. Verdict guilty of murder in the first degree. The respondent excepted. Judgment and sentence respited and cause passed to the Supreme Court. It appeared that the respondent, Frank Shaw, and his father, Dustin Shaw, were confined in Windsor County jail on the 24th day of April, 1900, and for some time previous thereto; that between dusk in the evening of the 23d of April and daylight of the 24th of April they left the said jail by an upper window thereof. The evidence on the part of the State tended…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
Exception 2 is without avail. The juror testified, in effect, that he had read statements of the facts of the case in the newspapers, from which he had formed and expressed an opinion concerning the respondent’s guilt or innocence, and still had that opinion. He further testified that he had conscientious scruples regarding the infliction of capital punishment, and that such scruples would affect him in the performance of his duties as a juryman. The respondent being charged with murder in the first degree, and the law being such that capital punishment would be inflicted, if he should be…
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