State v. Hansen
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Clatsop: Thos. A. McBride, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, by striking and killing ¿is wife, Caroline Hansen, in Clatsop County, and a motion for a new trial having been overruled by the court, the defendant was sentenced to be hanged. From this judgment he appeals, and assigns as error the admission of certain evidence and the giving and refusal of certain instructions.
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Appeal from Clatsop: Thos. A. McBride, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, by striking and killing ¿is wife, Caroline Hansen, in Clatsop County, and a motion for a new trial having been overruled by the court, the defendant was sentenced to be hanged. From this judgment he appeals, and assigns as error the admission of certain evidence and the giving and refusal of certain instructions. We shall consider the assignments in the order in which his counsel presents them.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moore.
1. He contends that the court erred in admitting in evidence the testimony of H. A. Smith, sheriff of said county. The defense interposed was insanity superinduced by the excessive use of alcoholic liquors, to support which evidence was introduced tending to show that for about eleven years prior to the alleged homicide the defendant had been in the habit of becoming intoxicated whenever he could obtain liquor; that upon returning to his home after a drunken spree he was restless and could not sleep nor work continuously at anything, but changed from one thing to…
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