State v. Aiken
Oregon Supreme Court
From Washington: Thomas A. McBride, Judge. James Aiken was convicted of murder in the second degree, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Moore
The defendant James Aiken was informed against, jointly with Henry Bacon and Budd Malim, for murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed in Washington County on December 3, 1900, by shooting and killing one Jung Goey Shu, and, having been separately tried, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term, of his natural life, from which judgment he appeals.
The state, adopting the theory that the deceased was killed in pursuance of a conspiracy formed by Aiken, Bacon, and Malim, was permitted, over the defendant’s…
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