State v. Murphy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Walker, Chancellor.

The plaintiff in error, Murphy, was convicted of murder in tlie first degree at the October term, 1914, of the Burlington Oyer and Terminer, and brings error. The entire record of the proceedings had upon the trial is brought up' under section 136 of the Criminal Procedure act and he specifies eleven causes for reversal under section 137. They were argued under six heads, as follows: (1) the admission of the testimony of Charles Wilhelm given at the coroner’s inquest, it having been shown that he was dead at the time of the trial;…