State v. Wren
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill of Exceptions, allowed by Pike and Chamberlin, JJ., at the April term, 1913, of the superior court, after a verdict of guilty in the first degree upon an indictment charging the murder of John Stewart Hamilton at Hinsdale, on February 5, 1913. The state’s evidence tended to show opportunity, robbery, flight on February 6 to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the finding of a registered letter receipt issued to Hamilton on January 7, 1913, in the chimney of a house occupied by…
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Bill of Exceptions, allowed by Pike and Chamberlin, JJ., at the April term, 1913, of the superior court, after a verdict of guilty in the first degree upon an indictment charging the murder of John Stewart Hamilton at Hinsdale, on February 5, 1913. The state’s evidence tended to show opportunity, robbery, flight on February 6 to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the finding of a registered letter receipt issued to Hamilton on January 7, 1913, in the chimney of a house occupied by the defendant up to the time of his flight. The defendant excepted to rulings admitting and excluding evidence, to…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The exceptions to evidence are to the admission •of the testimony of the witness, Dickson, that the defendant, Wren, signed the name “0. Moland” to a certain document, and to the ■evidence of Mrs. Dompier of a statement made by the defendant’s wife. The defendant also excepted to the exclusion of evidence of an assualt upon Hamilton by other parties, and that one W C. Adams, when summoned as a witness by him, attempted to commit ■suicide.
1. “It is a sufficient answer to the objection against admitting secondary evidence of the existence and contents of the . . . writing that the original was…
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