State v. Monich

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

The defendant below, having been convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and thereupon sentenced to death, brings the record of that conviction to this court for review. Besides the strict record, he has brought up with his writ of error certain bills of exception sealed at the trial raising questions concerning the admissibility in evidence of declarations made by the deceased after receiving the mortal wounds, and in the absence of the defendant, and also certain exceptions respecting the instructions of the trial judge to the…