State v. Powers

By the Court,

Waldo, J.:

The appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Multnomah county, for the murder of Benjamin Cornelius, in the city of Portland on the evening of the fourth of July, 1881. He was tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to death. A motion for a new trial was overruled, which is the error chiefly relied upon here. The only error alleged to have occurred at the trial, that calls for consideration, was the ruling out of the declarations of the appellant to the witness Imbrie of the purpose of his, the prisoner’s, visit to Morrison street wharf on…