State v. Corcoran
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court, Shoshone County. Under section 3961 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho, the court was authorized to direct the sheriff, and no other officer, to summon the jurors, unless the sheriff was disqualified under sections 1886 and 1887, or incapacitated under section 2085 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho. It is only in the cases mentioned in those three sections that the coroner would be authorized by law to perform any of the duties of the sheriff.
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APPEAL from District Court, Shoshone County. Under section 3961 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho, the court was authorized to direct the sheriff, and no other officer, to summon the jurors, unless the sheriff was disqualified under sections 1886 and 1887, or incapacitated under section 2085 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho. It is only in the cases mentioned in those three sections that the coroner would be authorized by law to perform any of the duties of the sheriff. Before the duties of the sheriff can be imposed upon the coroner, or upon an elisor, the disqualification of the sheriff must…
1Opinion of the CourtQuarles, J.
The defendant was indicted by a grand jury of Shoshone county upon the charge of murdering one James Cheyne, in said county, tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to serve a term of seventeen years’ *226imprisonment in the state prison. Defendant moved for a new trial, which was denied him, and he has appealed to this court from the judgment of conviction, and also from the order denying him a new trial. The evidence is not in the record before us, only such portions.thereof as tend to show the object and character of defendant’s exceptions being in the record.…
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- People v. DoleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1898
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