State v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Sumner District Court. Information for murder in' the first degree, charging Willis Jachson with feloniously killing -William McDowell, in the county of Sumner, July 20, 1873. Trial at the April Term, 1876, of the district court, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Motions in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial, were overruled, and the defendant was sentenced in accordance with the verdict. JaeJcson appeals.
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Appeal from Sumner District Court. Information for murder in' the first degree, charging Willis Jachson with feloniously killing -William McDowell, in the county of Sumner, July 20, 1873. Trial at the April Term, 1876, of the district court, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Motions in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial, were overruled, and the defendant was sentenced in accordance with the verdict. JaeJcson appeals. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was a criminal prosecution for murder in the first degree. The defendant was convicted and sentenced, and he now appeals to this court. Only two questions are presented to this court: First, it is claimed that the information upon which the defendant was prosecuted does not state facts sufficient to constitute the offense of murder in the first degree; second, it is claimed that two incompetent jurors, along with ten other jurors, were allowed to hear and determine the case.
1. Murder; suffloimt informaWith reference to the first…
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