State v. Hunt
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John' A. Hockadan, Judge. (1) One who has “read the evidence taken before the coroner’s jury, either as originally written, or as printed in a newspaper.......and formed an opinion therefrom, as a matter of law is disqualified, and he can neither form one of the list of forty, nor one of the jury which tries the issue joined.”
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Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John' A. Hockadan, Judge. (1) One who has “read the evidence taken before the coroner’s jury, either as originally written, or as printed in a newspaper.......and formed an opinion therefrom, as a matter of law is disqualified, and he can neither form one of the list of forty, nor one of the jury which tries the issue joined.” State v. Culler, 82 Mo. 626; State v. Taylor, 134 Mo. 138. (2) The court erred in making its order requiring the clerk to substitute the name of Armistead Selby for that of Armistead Delly, upon the records as well as upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
— From a conviction of murder in the ■first degree for having on the twenty-ninth day of August, 1896, shot to death with a pistol his daughter Mattie Ree Hunt, defendant appeals. The homicide was committed in Boone county, where the trial was had at the November term, 1897, of the circuit court of that county.
The defense was insanity.
The facts were but few, and about as follows:
At the time of the homicide the defendant, his wife, and their daughter Mattie Ree Hunt, lived on a small piece of property of which defendant was the owner, in Columbia, Missouri. He had for some tiine been wanting…
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