Dillin v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Barry Circuit. The plaintiff iu error was charged with the murder of Jane Harding, on the thirty-first day of May, 1858. On the trial, at an adjourned term of said court, in November, 1858, James Ransom, a • witness for the prosecution, testified that the deceased was the wife of Abram L. Harding, and formerly lived in Maple Grove, in Barry county. She removed from Maple Grove in September, 1857, to Napoleon, in Jackson county.
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Error to Barry Circuit. The plaintiff iu error was charged with the murder of Jane Harding, on the thirty-first day of May, 1858. On the trial, at an adjourned term of said court, in November, 1858, James Ransom, a • witness for the prosecution, testified that the deceased was the wife of Abram L. Harding, and formerly lived in Maple Grove, in Barry county. She removed from Maple Grove in September, 1857, to Napoleon, in Jackson county. Before this removal, and some time in August, 1857, her house was burned up. She came back to the house of witness in Maple Grove, May 15th, 1858, and stayed…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin Ch. J.:
The testimony of Ransom respecting the wheat, was competent. The object of the prosecution evidently was, to show the existence of ill will' upon the part of the prisoner towards the deceased; and the whole testimony of this witness, so far as set out in the bill of exceptions, tends to show, and was evidently produced for the purpose of showing, that such ill will and malice existed. It is objected that the occurrence was too long prior to, and remote from, that of the homicide; but this can hardly be contended when we bear in mind that Mrs. Harding left the neighborhood of the…
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