Commonwealth v. Clue
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER AND GENERAL GAOL DELIVERY. Johanna Clue, had been indicted and tried, for the murder of her husband before his Honour Judge King and his associates, holding a court of Oyer and Terminer for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the month of April 1831, when the jury not being able to agree, the court discharged them for the reasons which will be detailed hereafter.
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COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER AND GENERAL GAOL DELIVERY. Johanna Clue, had been indicted and tried, for the murder of her husband before his Honour Judge King and his associates, holding a court of Oyer and Terminer for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the month of April 1831, when the jury not being able to agree, the court discharged them for the reasons which will be detailed hereafter. She was arraigned again for the same offence, at the present sessions of the court of Oyer and Terminer held by the Chief Justice and Judge Kennedy, when she pleaded autrefois acquit; and also, “ that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
It is not intended to treat the question presented by this demurrer, in the various aspects in which it has been viewed at the argument. The subject has been exhausted by several of the most learned and able judges of our country;' and had we even the vanity to deem ourselves competent to shed new light on it, an attempt to do so, would have been prevented by the press of business that has occupied our attention during the short period that has been afforded. JBut we have meditated no such attempt. Our object is not to produce new…
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