Long v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court of Lincoln county. Tried below before Hamer, J. • Admission in evidence of confession of Ernest Meyers. Priest v. State, 10 Neb., 399. Sharpe v. State, 29 Ohio State, 264. Butcher v. State, 16 Neb., 33. Impeachment of witness. Olive v. State, 11 Neb., 27. Refusal of court to admit record of conviction. 1 Greenleaf Ev., 468. •Character of witness for truth and veracity.
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Error to the district court of Lincoln county. Tried below before Hamer, J. • Admission in evidence of confession of Ernest Meyers. Priest v. State, 10 Neb., 399. Sharpe v. State, 29 Ohio State, 264. Butcher v. State, 16 Neb., 33. Impeachment of witness. Olive v. State, 11 Neb., 27. Refusal of court to admit record of conviction. 1 Greenleaf Ev., 468. •Character of witness for truth and veracity. Pratt v. State, 19 Ohio State, 278. Fisher v. Conway, 21 Kan., 18. On the 11th instruction given by court, cited: Walrath v. State, 8 Neb., 87. Williams v. State, 6 Id., 340. Curry v. State, 4 Id.,…
1Opinion of the Court
Reese, Ch. J.
Plaintiff in error was indicted by the grand jury of Lincoln county for the crime of aiding, abetting, counseling, inciting, and procuring one Ernest Meyers to murder Emily Bascombe, of said county, and the crime alleged as against Meyers consisted of murder in the first degree. Meyers seems not to have been apprehended, and the prosecution is against plaintiff in error, and so far as the trial is concerned was in the absence of Meyers and without any proceeding as against him.
The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, and plaintiff in error was sentenced to be hanged. He…
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