McCormick v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
ERROR from the district court for Otoe county. Indictment for felonious homicide. Tried below before Jessen, J. Plea of not guilty. Trial. Conviction. Sentence twenty years at hard labor. Defendant brings error.
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ERROR from the district court for Otoe county. Indictment for felonious homicide. Tried below before Jessen, J. Plea of not guilty. Trial. Conviction. Sentence twenty years at hard labor. Defendant brings error. The record in the trial court shows the following proceedings subsequent to verdict: Now on this 1st day of March, 1902, that being a day of the January, 1902, term of said court, comes W. W. Wilson, county attorney, on behalf of the state of Nebraska, also comes the defendant, John McCormick, in custody of the sheriff and accompanied by his counsel, John C. Watson and John Y. Morgan.…
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
On information by the county attorney, the defendant was arraigned and tried on the charge of murder in the first degree. The trial of the accused to the court and a jury, on the issue raised by a plea of not guilty, resulted in a verdict finding the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree, as charged in the information, on which verdict the court sentenced him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a. period of twenty years. For the purpose of having the record of his conviction reviewed, the defendant has brought the cause here by a proceeding in error.
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