State v. Sharp

Sherwood, O. J.

I. The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree; the name of the person on whom the murder was alleged in the indictment to have been perpetrated, was “ Martin Edward Hogan.” On trial had the jury by their verdict found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, and he was thereupon sentenced in conformity to the verdict.

i mukdee- deiiberation. We shall enter on no discussion of the testimony, as to the degree of homicide which it establishes, as we regai’d a fatal error as having been committed in the giving by the court, of its own motion,…