Legal Opinion

State v. Warner

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided May 1, 1917PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Indictment for murder. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1915, Windsor County, Fish, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty of murder in the first degree. Respondent excepted. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.

George Warner has been convicted of murder in the first degree. The homicide was committed in the town of Andover on November 4, 1914, and ITenry Wiggins was its victim. The respondent brings here but two questions, neither of which requires any particular statement of the evidence. He introduced some evidence tending to show that he was insane at the time of the homicide, and that this mental unsoundness developed about two years before that event. Thereupon the state produced various witnesses, who had known the respondent for many years preceding the trial, and after they had testified to…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  2. People v. GarbuttMichigan Supreme Court · 1868
  3. Ide v. Boston & Maine RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1909
  4. Fassett v. Town of RoxburySupreme Court of Vermont · 1883
  5. Standard Life & Accident Insurance v. SchmaltzSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1899

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. State v. MinerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1969
  2. State v. MessierSupreme Court of Vermont · 1985
  3. State v. PercySupreme Court of Vermont · 1988
  4. State v. GokeySupreme Court of Vermont · 1978
  5. State v. BishopSupreme Court of Vermont · 1969

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