Jackson v. State

Chappell, District Judge.

The plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, was informed against in the district court for Keith county, Nebraska, for the crime of murder in the first degree in the fatal shooting of one Charles Beekin on July 2, 1936. Upon trial to a jury he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by the trial court to the Nebraska state penitentiary for nine years at hard labor. He prosecutes error to this court.

Defendant claims many errors in the trial of the case, but actually relies upon four, to wit: The appointment of Murl Maupin as special prosecutor to assist the…