State v. Pike
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Indictment against Josiah L. Pike for murder, tried before Perley, C. J., and Doe, J., October term, 1868. The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree, upon the following indictment: “STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.
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Indictment against Josiah L. Pike for murder, tried before Perley, C. J., and Doe, J., October term, 1868. The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree, upon the following indictment: “STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. At the supreme judicial court, holden at Portsmouth, within and for the county of Rockingham, aforesaid, on- the third Tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the grand jurors for the state of New Hampshire upon their oath present that Josiah L. Pike, late of Newburyport, in the county of Essex and…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
“ All murder committed by poison, starving, torture, or other deliberate and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate,.arson, rape, robbery or burg*403lary, is murder of the first degree; and all murder not of the first degree is-of the second degree.” Gen. Stat. ch. 264, sec. 1.
“ If the jury shall find any person guilty of murder, they shall, by their verdict, find also whether it is of the first or second degree.” Gen. Stat. ch. 264, sec. 2.
“If any person shall plead guilty to an indictment for murder, the court having cognizance of the offence shall…
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