State v. Levy
Idaho Supreme Court
. APPEAL from. District Court of Ada County. Honorable George H. Stewart, Judge. , Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and judgment of death entered against him. The facts are fully set forth in the opinion.
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. APPEAL from. District Court of Ada County. Honorable George H. Stewart, Judge. , Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and judgment of death entered against him. The facts are fully set forth in the opinion. That the evidence was insufficient to justify or sustain the verdict of the jury in this case will be conclusively' shown to the court by the reading of the transcript of the evidence given upon the trial; and from reading and considering the same, the court can only arrive at the conclusion that the verdict in this case was the result of the prejudice of the jury…
1Opinion of the CourtShllivan, C. J.
On February 20, 1902, the defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Davis Levy. By information of the county attorney of Ada county, the defendant was accused of said crime in that, on the third day of October, 1901, at the county of Ada, in the state of Idaho, the said defendant did feloniously and of his deliberate, premeditated malice aforethought, kill and murdef said Davis Levy by means of a rope, and beating, bruising and strangling said deceased. After the verdict aforesaid was rendered the court passed the sentence of death upon *490the…
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