State v. Smith
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. . Indictment for manslaughter against the defendant for causing the death of his insane wife by negligently exposing her to the inclemency of the weather, insufficiently clad and in a room not sufficiently warmed, from January 18 to February 9, 1875. The crime is set out in the indictment as follows: First count.
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On exceptions. . Indictment for manslaughter against the defendant for causing the death of his insane wife by negligently exposing her to the inclemency of the weather, insufficiently clad and in a room not sufficiently warmed, from January 18 to February 9, 1875. The crime is set out in the indictment as follows: First count. “The juro'rs for said state upon their oath present, that Hugh Smith, of Buxton, in the said county of York, laborer, on the nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; at Buxton, in said county of York, being then…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
Having been found guilty upon the first and third counts of an indictment in which he is charged with manslaughter the defendant moves in arrest of judgment, and excepts to the overruling of his motion, as well as to certain instructions given to the jury and certain refusals to instruct in conformity with his requests.
The crime was alleged to have been committed against the person of his wife, and the evidence for the state tended to show that his wife was insane and had been for some years, at times, so as *265to tear all the clothing from her person, that she became a cripple, able to move…
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