State v. Landers
South Dakota Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Davison County. Hon. Frank B. Smith, Judge. IT. R. Landers was convicted of murder and he brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtFuller, P. J.
Plaintiff in error is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls for the murder of John Doe, whose true name is unknown, and the admission in -evidence of his sworn confession tending to- connect him with the commission of that crime a§ an aider and abettor, and therefore punishable under -our statute as a principal, is the first point urged for a reversal.
According to bis confession and corroborating testimony, the offense was committed by means of a gunshot wound inflicted on the 16th day of July, 1906, in the railway yards at the city of Mitchell, where the dead body of…
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