Hamilton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendant from a judgment and sentence of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon a verdict finding him guilty of murder in the first degree. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McComas
The appellant, William W. Hamilton, was indicted for the murder of Mary Elizabeth Butler, otherwise known as Lizzie Lyman, and was tried and convicted-of murder in the first degree. A motion in arrest of judgment was overruled, and the appellant was sentenced to be hanged, by the supreme court of this District, and he has taken this appeal.
1. The appellant assigns as error that the court below erred in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment, because the indictment fails to legally charge the crime of murder in the first degree; because: First, the indictment fails to charge that the…
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