State v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder iu the first degree; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried, on the plea of not guiUy, before Foster and Granger, Js.
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Indictment for murder iu the first degree; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried, on the plea of not guiUy, before Foster and Granger, Js. The murder charged was that of a woman named Johanna Hess, at Meriden, in New Haven County, on the 8th day of July, 1872. By statute (Gen. Statutes, tit. 12, sec. 6.), “ all murder which shall he perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in perpetrating, or. attempting to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary,…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
There being a difference in opinion on the questions arising upon the motion in error, none of those questions are now decided, but we confine our attention to the motion for a new trial.
We think the charge of the court upon the subject of insanity was unexceptionable. It fully complied with the requests of the prisoner’s counsel, so far as those requests were according to law. The language of the court differs, and very properly differs, from the language of the requests ; but the law of the charge is correct, and all that the prisoner was entitled to.
We are also of the opinion that the…
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