State v. Biggerstaff
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, °First Judicial District, Lewis and Clarke County. Conviction for murder in the first degree. Defendant was tried before Blake, J.
1Opinion of the CourtPemberton, C. J.
On the 19th day of October, 1895, the above-named defendant was convicted of murder in the first *511degree in the district court of Lewis and Clarke county, and on the 26th day of the same month was sentenced to be hanged. From the judgment and order of court overruling his motion for a new trial, the defendant appeals.
The counsel for the defendant contend that “error of law was committed in the closing argument of said cause by the county attorney, prejudicial to the defendant, to wit, in the use of intemperate language as to the prevalence of crime and the neglect of other juries to do th§ir…
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