State v. Virgens
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was indicted by tbe grand jury of Martin county, tried in the district court for Faribault county before Quinn, J., and a jury, and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree. From the judgment of conviction, sentencing defendant to imprisonment in the state prison for life, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Christian F. Yirgens was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, the victim being John Steen.
John Steen was a middle aged farmer residing upon a farm about a half mile east of the village of Triumph, Martin county, this state. His home had been there for many year’s. About 10:30 o’clock in *424the evening of May 7, 1913, he left the bedroom of his wife, lit a lantern, and went to his hog-house to care for a brood-sow. Early the next morning he was found dead in one of the pens. Death came from a bullet which entered the top of his head, passed down through the brain and…
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