State v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder ; tried to the jury in the Superior Court for Hartford county, upon the plea of not guilty, before Carpenter and Minor, Js. The prisoner was charged with the murder of William Willard, warden of the state prison, within which the prisoner was at the time confined as a convict.
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Indictment for murder ; tried to the jury in the Superior Court for Hartford county, upon the plea of not guilty, before Carpenter and Minor, Js. The prisoner was charged with the murder of William Willard, warden of the state prison, within which the prisoner was at the time confined as a convict. While the jury were being impaneled, Lonzo M. Smith, one of the persons regularly summoned, was first called and examined as to his qualifications as a juror in the cause; and being inquired of by the counsel for the prisoner whether he had formed any opinion as to the prisoner’s guilt, said that…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, C. J.
We listened to the able and earnest arguments of the counsel for the prisoner with the attention they deserved, and have given them the deliberate consideration which the character of the case and our sense of duty required, but without being satisfied that there is any error in the record, or any sufficient ground for a new trial.
1. In relation to the supposed error in the judgment, there is a fallacy in their argument which lies in the assumption that the order remanding the prisoner to the custody of the warden, which is contained in it, is a punitive part of the sentence. Such, we all…
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