State v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pettis Criminal Cowrt. — Hon. J. E.Ryland, Judge. The defendant, a negro, was eonvieted of murder in the first degree, the charge being that he killed Johanna Sehollman, a white girl, by stabbing her with a knife. In substance, the salient facts developed at the trial are these: The deceased was employed as a domestic in the family of Mayor Stevens, of Sedalia. The defendant was also in the employ of Mayor Stevens, and slept in a room at the barn.
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Appeal from Pettis Criminal Cowrt. — Hon. J. E.Ryland, Judge. The defendant, a negro, was eonvieted of murder in the first degree, the charge being that he killed Johanna Sehollman, a white girl, by stabbing her with a knife. In substance, the salient facts developed at the trial are these: The deceased was employed as a domestic in the family of Mayor Stevens, of Sedalia. The defendant was also in the employ of Mayor Stevens, and slept in a room at the barn. On the evening of October 24, 1892, which was Sunday, the deceased left Mayor Stevens’ house and went to Mr. Miller’s, a place she was…
1Opinion of the CourtSheewoOd, J.
Numerous errors are assigned as grounds for reversal of the judgment, which will now be considered.
I. And first as to the objection that certain incompetent jurors were placed on the list and on the panel that afterwards tried defendant. In State v. Hultz, 106 Mo. 41, a juror was ruled incompetent who had heard the witnesses testify at a preliminary examination, and had read a report of the evidence in a local newspaper. In the present instance the jurors in question had read in local newspapers what “purported to be” the evidence taken at the coroner’s inquest, and what “purported to be” the…
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- State v. PattersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881
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