Dodge v. People
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court of Otoe county. The plaintiff.in error was indicted at the March term, A. D., 1875, of the district court for the murder of James McGuire, on the twenty-seventh day of September, A. D., 1874, in the county of Chase.
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Error to the district court of Otoe county. The plaintiff.in error was indicted at the March term, A. D., 1875, of the district court for the murder of James McGuire, on the twenty-seventh day of September, A. D., 1874, in the county of Chase. This latter county is unorganized, and the indictment was found, and plaintiff' in error tried in Otoe county, under authority of the act of 1875. Laws of 1875, 31. A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury, and the plaintiff in error sentenced to be executed on the fourteenth day of January, 1876. A writ of error to this court was allowed, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
The first error assigned is that the court had no jurisdiction.
The plaintiff in error was indicted and tried in Otoe County, for the murder of James McGuire in the unorganized county of Chase. The act approved Feb. 25, 1875, provides that “it shall be lawful for the judge of any judicial district court within the state of Nebraska, when it is made to appear to him that a crime has been committed, amounting to a felony, within any unorganized county or territory, or in any county where no terms of the district court are held, attached to or in his said district for judicial or other purposes,…
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