Taylor v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Lancaster county. Tried below before Chapman, J. It was error to overrule the motion to strike out the sheriff’s testimony. The confession was inadmissible.
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Error to the district court for Lancaster county. Tried below before Chapman, J. It was error to overrule the motion to strike out the sheriff’s testimony. The confession was inadmissible. (3 Russell, Crimes [9th Am. ed.], 367; Kelly v. State, 72 Ala., 244; Redd v. State, 69 Id., 255 ; Young v. State, 68 Id., 569 ; Commonwealth v. Knapp, 9 Pick. [Mass.], 496; Queen v. Doherty, 13 Cox C. C. [Eng.], 23; Reg. v. Bate, ■11 Id. [Eng.], 686; Reg. v. Warringham, 2 Den'. C. C. [Eng.], 447; Sherrington’’s Case, 2 Lew. C. C. [Eng.], 123; Commonwealth v. Tuckerman, 10 Gray [Mass.], 173; ' Commonwealth…
1Opinion of the Court
Ragan, C.
John Taylor was convicted in the district court of Lancaster county of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The crime for which he was tried and convicted was the shooting on the night of April 22, 1889, of one Robert Woods. The murdered man was at the time at home in his bed. The fatal shot was probably from a double barreled shot gun, loaded with leaden slugs and fired through a window in Woods’ house. The evidence on which Taylor was convicted was circumstantial. During the trial the state sought to prove by the sheriff a…
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