State v. Stain
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion. The defendants were indicted at the February term, 1888, of this court, in Penobscot county, for the murder of John Wilson Barron, treasurer of the Dexter savings bank, on the 22d day of February, 1878. The trial was begun on the twelfth day of term before a drawn jury, the chief justice presiding. The ease was committed to the jury on the 23d day when a verdict, guilty of murder in the second degree, was returned.
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On motion. The defendants were indicted at the February term, 1888, of this court, in Penobscot county, for the murder of John Wilson Barron, treasurer of the Dexter savings bank, on the 22d day of February, 1878. The trial was begun on the twelfth day of term before a drawn jury, the chief justice presiding. The ease was committed to the jury on the 23d day when a verdict, guilty of murder in the second degree, was returned. On the next day, the defendants filed a general motion to set the verdict aside as against evidence, and for a new trial. They also filed, several days later in the…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
On the evening of February 22d, 1878, John W. Barron, cashier of the Dexter savings bank, was found within the vault of the bank, wounded, gagged, handcuffed, unconscious and in a dying condition. A few hours later death resulted. Ten years from that time the respondents were indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of this man. Thereupon a general motion to set aside the verdict was filed, and also a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly-discovered evidence. These motions were addressed to and heard by the chief justice of this court who presided at the trial. The motions having…
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