State v. Marren
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, for Blaine County. Lion. Edward A. Walters, Judge. Defendant was convicted of murder of the second degree and appeals from the judgment and order overruling a motion for a new trial.
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, for Blaine County. Lion. Edward A. Walters, Judge. Defendant was convicted of murder of the second degree and appeals from the judgment and order overruling a motion for a new trial. The memory of a witness cannot, under our statute, be refreshed by stenographer’s transcript of the evidence; it was an attempt to get before the jury the substance of the witness Thurber’s testimony taken at the former trial, the purpose of which was to bolster up his testimony. Thurber did not make the stenographer’s notes; they were not made under…
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
— The appellant was tried and convicted of murder of the second degree. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled. This appeal is from the judgment and from the order overruling the motion for a new trial.
The evidence upon which appellant was convicted was wholly circumstantial, and the first question presented in appellant’s brief is the contention that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict. The evidence shows that Thomas Marren, the appellant, and Con. Ryan, the deceased, had for a number of years been residents on the Malad river, the appellant living on the north side…
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