State v. Bridges

The prisoner claims the right to a new trial on the ground that essential rules of criminal procedure were set at naught on his trial in the court below.

Candor compels the confession that it is not altogether easy to hearken to the prisoner’s plea. The State’s testimony tends to show that the prisoner coveted his neighbor’s wife, and slew his neighbor with rare atrocity that his physical enjoyment of the wife’s person might be exclusive. The very sordidness of the evidence strongly tempts us to say that justice and law are not always synonymous, and to vote for an affirmance of the judgment…