State v. Riggs
Montana Supreme Court
Appeals from District Court, Yellowstone County; Charles A. Taylor, Judge. George T. Riggs was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying him a new trial. The court erred in permitting evidence to be admitted concerning remote quarrels between the defendant and the deceased.
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Appeals from District Court, Yellowstone County; Charles A. Taylor, Judge. George T. Riggs was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying him a new trial. The court erred in permitting evidence to be admitted concerning remote quarrels between the defendant and the deceased. The rule no doubt is that where there has been mistreatment of the deceased by the defendant continuously for a long period of time, the same can be shown by the state as a part of its case in chief, but that is not the situation here. There were only two quarrels, one…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Galen
On the night of March 22, 1918, Matie Rig'gs, wife of the defendant, was found dead on the kitchen floor of her home. Resulting therefrom, the defendant was charged, by information filed in Yellowstone county, with the crime of murder in the first degree. This is the second time this case has been considered by this court on appeal. On the first appeal, which was taken from a judgment imposing the death penalty, and from an order denying motion for a new trial, the cause was by controlling opinion remanded for new trial, because of insufficiency of the evidence. (State v. Riggs, 56 Mont. 393,…
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