State v. Laliyer
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The Defendant was indicted, in the Second Judicial District Court, held in and for the county of Ramsey, for the murder of Hannah Laliyer, his wife, and was tried at the September term of that Court in 1859, and convicted. A case being made that Court overruled a motion for a new trial, and the case now comes to this Court on the exceptions appearing in the case. Points of Prosecution.
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The Defendant was indicted, in the Second Judicial District Court, held in and for the county of Ramsey, for the murder of Hannah Laliyer, his wife, and was tried at the September term of that Court in 1859, and convicted. A case being made that Court overruled a motion for a new trial, and the case now comes to this Court on the exceptions appearing in the case. Points of Prosecution. First.- — -The challenge allowed after the juror Eckford was sworn, was authorized by the Statutes. Pub. Stat. Sec. 16, p. 773. The presumption is that good cause was shown, and inasmuch as a*bill of exceptions…
1Opinion of the Court
Emmett, C. J..
By the Court. The prosecution gave in evidence on the trial, several distinct voluntary confessions or declarations made by the Defendant, of the agency or participation he had in the crime charged in the indictment. In the confession made to the witness Ellslayer, he admitted that he had tilled his wife, by throwing her against a block or log of the house, and then striking her with an axe, and gave as a reason for killing her that she had set some hay on fire, and then was the best time to get her out of the way. He further said that he and one Klaas Hghlman afterwards placed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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