State v. Marsh
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for murder. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1897, Washington County, Rowell, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty of murder in the first degree against both respondents. The respondents moved for separate trials, but the motion was denied and they were tried together.
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Indictment for murder. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1897, Washington County, Rowell, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty of murder in the first degree against both respondents. The respondents moved for separate trials, but the motion was denied and they were tried together. In impaneling the jury, the State having peremptorily challenged six jurors, and each respondent three, the State claimed the right to further challenge peremptorily, which was allowed, to which both respondents excepted, claiming that the State had a right peremptorily to challenge only six. The State subsequently…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, C. J.
The respondents were indicted and tried on the charge of having murdered George Marsh, the husband of the respondent Marsh, by means of arsenical poison, on January 29, 1896. On the trial several exceptions were taken which the respondents’ counsel have not urged in their brief, nor in their argument, but say that they do not waive them. The court has examined these-exceptions, but, as it has discovered no error in the proceedings of the trial court in regard thereto, these exceptions will not be further considered in this opinion.(1) The exceptions taken in regard to allowing the State the…
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