State v. Allen
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder, in tire Superior Court for Hartford County. Tlio prisoner was indicted with Henry Hamlin‘and John H. Davis for the murder of Wells Shipman, a watchman at the state prison, the murder having been committed in an attempt of the defendant and Hamlin, who were convicts, to escape from the prison.
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Indictment for murder, in tire Superior Court for Hartford County. Tlio prisoner was indicted with Henry Hamlin‘and John H. Davis for the murder of Wells Shipman, a watchman at the state prison, the murder having been committed in an attempt of the defendant and Hamlin, who were convicts, to escape from the prison. Sundry questions made with reference to proceedings in the case before the several ■ defendants pleaded to the merits, are stated and disposed of fin the next preceding case of The State v. Hamlin and others. All the defendants pleaded not guilty, and Hamlin and Davis ■ elected…
1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.
This case comes before the court by motion in error from the judgment of the court below, and also by motion for a new trial.
The first specific ground of error assigned is, “that the court erred in issuing an order to the sheriff, in the absence of the defendant, and in the absence of his counsel, and without their knowledge, and before the trial commenced, to summon talesmen for the jury to be impaneled for the trial of said cause.”
This claim of the defendant is founded upon a mistaken view of the action of the court. The order in question was not an order to summon talesmen to supply the…
2Cited by21 opinions
- State v. KempSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1939
- State v. AlterioSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1966
- People v. WilsonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1926
- Hedrick v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1951
- State v. KleinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
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