Legal Opinion

State v. Collins

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided April 15, 1885PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from Pilce Circuit Court. — ITon. Elijah Robinson, Judge. (1) Tlie record proper does not show that any orders were- made by the court, between the first and second, trials, and fails to show that the indictment was signed by the prosecuting attorney. (2) The court erred in procuring a panel of forty qualified jurors on the sixth oí March, when the trial was set for the tenth of March. The-whole forty may have pre-judged the case between these dates.

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1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.

— The defendant was indicted in the circuit court of Pike county, at its September term, 1883, for murder in the first degree, in killing Owen Utterback. He was put upon his trial at the March term, 1884, of said court, resulting in his conviction of the crime as charged. This judgment, on defendant’s appeal to this court, was reversed, and the cause was remanded, and defendant being again put upon his trial, at the March term, 1885, of said court, he was again convicted of murder in the first degree, and the cause is before us, the second time, on defendant’s appeal.

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