State v. Ledbeter
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant, having been indicted and tried in the district court for Blue Earth county for the crime of murder in the first degree, was duly acquitted. Upon being subsequently indicted for the crime in the second degree and arraigned, she pleaded a former acquittal and jeopardy. To this plea the state demurred. The court, Quinn, J., acting in the place of Pfau, J., sustained the demurrer, and the case was certified to this court.
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Defendant, having been indicted and tried in the district court for Blue Earth county for the crime of murder in the first degree, was duly acquitted. Upon being subsequently indicted for the crime in the second degree and arraigned, she pleaded a former acquittal and jeopardy. To this plea the state demurred. The court, Quinn, J., acting in the place of Pfau, J., sustained the demurrer, and the case was certified to this court. Judge Pfau was legally and absolutely disqualified from presiding, sitting, or in any manner acting as judge at the former trial of this defendant. On account of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On November 13, 1909, the grand jury of the county of Blue Earth returned to the district court of that county an indictment, sufficient in form and substance, against the defendant herein, whereby she was accused of the crime of murder in the first degree, in that, on May 4, 1909, within such county, she did, with the premeditated design to effect the death of Holland J. Ledbeter, feloniously kill and murder him. She was duly arraigned and required to plead to such indictment, and pleaded not guilty to the offense charged therein. She was then placed on trial for the offense, and the jury,…
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- Sjoberg v. NordinSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
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