McCormick v. State

In March, 1902, John McCormick, the plaintiff in error, was duly tried and convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree, in the district court for Otoe county. He Avas sentenced to serve a term of 20 years in the state penitentiary, and from that judgment he prosecuted error to this court. A hearing here resulted in a judgment affirming his conviction, and it was found that there was no error in the record up to and including the verdict. It Avas disclosed, hOAvever, that the trial judge had failed to inform him of the verdict of the jury, and to ask him if he had anything to say…