State v. Church
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. — Hon. Nat. M. Shelton, Judge. (1) The judge who was disqualified to sit in this ease, on being disqualified, set the ease for immediate hearing, and the judge wlm tried this ease immediately took the bench and without regard for the rights of defendant, called the case for trial, which was an abuse of judicial power. Such act was against reason, right and justice.
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Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. — Hon. Nat. M. Shelton, Judge. (1) The judge who was disqualified to sit in this ease, on being disqualified, set the ease for immediate hearing, and the judge wlm tried this ease immediately took the bench and without regard for the rights of defendant, called the case for trial, which was an abuse of judicial power. Such act was against reason, right and justice. (2) The court erred and abused its discretion in refusing defendant’s application for a continuance. (3) The court erred in' refusing defendant a special inquisition to try his insanity, two…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, P. J.
Under an information duly filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Warren county, by the prosecuting attorney of said county, charging the defendant William E. Church with murder in the first degree, in killing one Henry W. Yeater at said county on the 31st day of August, 1903, by cutting his throat with a razor, he was convicted in said court, at its June term, 1904, of murder in the first degree as charged, and his punishment fixed at death. He appeals.
At the time of the homicide the defendant was about twenty-two years .of age, and had lived most of his life with deceased…
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