People v. Coughlin
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of the Fourth judicial district, Territory of Utah, Hon. Gr. W. Bartch, Judge. Patrick Coughlin was convicted of murder, and appeals.
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Appeal from the district court of the Fourth judicial district, Territory of Utah, Hon. Gr. W. Bartch, Judge. Patrick Coughlin was convicted of murder, and appeals. Now, for the purpose of showing that the said arresting party had reasonable ground upon which to make an arrest of the defendant and his companion, the prosecution introduced secondary evidence of the contents, or rather a part of the contents, of a certain telegram sent by one Harrington, sheriff of Summit county, to Thomas Stagg. The said Stagg was one of the party with deceased, and was also killed in the same conflict. From…
1Opinion of the Court
Zane, C. J.:
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and, on motion for a new trial having been denied, he was sentenced to be executed. From this order and judgment of the court below he has appealed to this court.
The facts upon which the verdict was found, so far as we deem it necessary to state them, are that John M. Harrington, who was sheriff of Summit county, upon being informed on the 12th day of July, 1895, that Patrick Coughlin, the defendant, and one Frederick George, with whom the sheriff was acquainted, had stolen two horses in his county, and that…
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