State v. Cronin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder in the first degree; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors of the court in the admission of evidence.
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Indictment for murder in the first degree; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors of the court in the admission of evidence. Upon the trial of the case, the State offered evidence to prove and claimed to have proved:—That at about seven o’clock on the morning of October 6th, 1893, the prisoner, John Cronin, who was familiarly called “Jack,” walked straight to the house of the deceased, Albert J. Skinner, opened the outside door leading into the dining-room where the…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
In respect to the first reason of appeal we think there is no error. The declarations of the deceased to which Mrs. Page testified, were not only admissible as dying declarations, but were very clearly admissible because they tended to show that the deceased, at the time he made the declarations to which Mr. Horton testified, was in fact near death, as well as under a sense of impending dissolution. It was for this purpose, mainly, that the court admitted the testimony. Dying declarations are admissible only when it is shown to the satisfaction of the judge that the declarant was not only in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TrefethenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- People v. . FishNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1873
- Commonwealth v. TolliverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1855
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3Cited by13 opinions
- State v. MoynahanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
- State v. ReidSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984
- State v. JolySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1991
- State v. DePastinoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
- State v. MaturoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
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