Territory v. Bannigan
Supreme Court Of The Territory Of Dakota
Writ of Error to the Burleigh Bounty District Court. On the 24th day of February, 1877, the defendant, Peter Bannigan, was indicted in the District Court of Burleigh County for the crime of murder, in killing one John D. Massingale, alleged to have been committed “ wilfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought.” On this indictment the defendant was tried and a verdict of “guilty of murder as charged in the indictment” found by the jury.
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Writ of Error to the Burleigh Bounty District Court. On the 24th day of February, 1877, the defendant, Peter Bannigan, was indicted in the District Court of Burleigh County for the crime of murder, in killing one John D. Massingale, alleged to have been committed “ wilfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought.” On this indictment the defendant was tried and a verdict of “guilty of murder as charged in the indictment” found by the jury. Motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial were entered and overruled, and the defendant sentenced to death. Numerous exceptions were taken…
1Opinion of the CourtBeNNett, J.
We have in the record before us, in form, a common law indictment for murder, with a verdict of guilty as charged, and judgment of death. Is this indictment sufficient, under our statute, to sustain this verdict and judgment ? Counsel for defendant insist that it is not, and that it charges only manslaughter in the first degree, for the reason that it does not charge, in haec verba, the homicide to have been perpetrated “ with a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed.” Murder, as defined by the common law is “when a person of sound memory and discretion, unlawfully…
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