State v. Brown
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was tried in the district court for Clay county, before Mills, J., and a jury, on an indictment for murder in the first degree, was convicted, and was sentenced to death. He appeals from the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial. The circumstances of the crime are stated in the opinion.
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Defendant was tried in the district court for Clay county, before Mills, J., and a jury, on an indictment for murder in the first degree, was convicted, and was sentenced to death. He appeals from the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial. The circumstances of the crime are stated in the opinion. In its charge, the court, after stating that the defendant, by his own evidence as a witness, was guilty of murder in some one of the three degrees, and after stating the provisions of the Penal Code as to the degrees of murder, instructed the jury as follows: “The defendant’s assault on…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and appeals to this court from an order denying a new trial.
*3221. The court charged the jury that upon the evidence in the case the defendant was guilty of either murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or murder in the third degree, as defined by the Code. The homicide took ¡hace at about midnight. The defendant was a stranger in the town, and according to his own statement he had left a neighboring city to escape arrest. He was seen at several different saloons during the evening, and finally went to a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. LautenschlagerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1876
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