Legal Opinion

State v. Williams

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided January 27, 1916PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Indictment for murder in the first degree, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Reed, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused.

1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.

In an indictment containing two counts, the accused were jointly charged with the murder of Hubert B. Case on the 28th day of November, 1914, at the town of Barkhamsted. The first count charged that they wilfully, deliberately and premeditatedly killed him; the second, that they killed him while robbing him.

The evidence produced • by the State shows that Mr. Case conducted a country store at Barkhamsted, and that at about nine o’clock in the evening of the day alleged he was assaulted in his store and struck upon the head with a piece of an iron axle which had been secured from the scrap heap…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. SaxonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1913

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. State v. RossSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
  2. State v. WatsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
  3. State v. LevySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1925
  4. State v. LenihanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1964
  5. Salvatore v. HaydenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1957

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