Horn v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Laramie County, Hon. Richard H. Scott, Judge. Tom Horn was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death for the killing of one Willie Nickell. He prosecuted error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The only evidence rightly admitted, that tends in any way to establish the guilt of plaintiff in error of the crime charged, is the so-called confession.
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ERROR to the District Court, Laramie County, Hon. Richard H. Scott, Judge. Tom Horn was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death for the killing of one Willie Nickell. He prosecuted error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The only evidence rightly admitted, that tends in any way to establish the guilt of plaintiff in error of the crime charged, is the so-called confession. At the time of the alleged confession the plaintiff in error, while not staggering drunk and maudlin, was under the influence of liquor and unusually talkative, which was his condition when under…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Justice.
On information filed in the District Court of Laramie County, charging him with the murder of one William Nickell, the plaintiff in error, Tom Horn, was tried in said court and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to suffer the penalty of death imposed by statute upon that crime. Before sentence was pronounced a motion for new trial was filed 'and overruled, to which exceptions were reserved. The grounds of the motion, speaking generally, were the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, alleged errors of law occurring in the…
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