State v. Casey

A clear understanding of the facts in this case is the best exposition of some of the legal questions presented by defendant.

This is a case of homicide, committed in Multnomah County, Oregon. At about the hour of 10 o’clock p. m. on June 14, 1921, James Harry Phillips, aged 52 years, a special agent of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, while in the performance of his duty, was mortally wounded. _ He was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where his life expired in a little more than an hour after having been stricken down by a gunshot.

On June 15th, Dr. Frank R. Menne, coroner’s physician, performed an…