State v. Grant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court.—Hon. H. P. White,-. Judge. Defendant, a negro, was indicted for the murder of Patrick Jones, a policeman of Kansas City.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court.—Hon. H. P. White,-. Judge. Defendant, a negro, was indicted for the murder of Patrick Jones, a policeman of Kansas City. Evidence given at the trial tended to prove that in the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1882, sometime between five and eight o’clock, two pails of butter were stolen from the office of Adams Express Company at Kansas City, but that the fact was not discovered till the next day; that about 7:40 o’clock in the evening of the 3rd, Jones and one Miller, a witness in the case, were sitting in front of Fleming’s saloon, which was from 300 to…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, C. J.
The defendant, a negro, was indicted for murder in the first degree, on trial had was convicted of that offense, and comes here alleging numerous errors as reasons for reversal of the judgment of conviction. We have attentively examined those errors and will discuss some of them in detail, and such others as we deem necessary to discuss, we shall do no more than briefly notice in a general way.
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And first, as to the authority of the deceased, a police*243man, to make the arrest, as upon the existence of that hinges the whole case.
The local laws of 1874, page 327, relating to the City of Kansas,…
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- Ex parte SnyderSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
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