State v. Pike
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions from the superior court. Indictment of the defendant for manslaughter of his wife, Margaret E. Pike, at Portland, May, 1871, by seizing and dragging her by the hair of her head, and throwing her with force and violence upon a sofa, giving her mortal wounds, of which she died. The jury, some eight hours after the cause was submitted to them, returned a verdict of guilty.
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On exceptions from the superior court. Indictment of the defendant for manslaughter of his wife, Margaret E. Pike, at Portland, May, 1871, by seizing and dragging her by the hair of her head, and throwing her with force and violence upon a sofa, giving her mortal wounds, of which she died. The jury, some eight hours after the cause was submitted to them, returned a verdict of guilty. Meanwhile they were called into court, the defendant’s counsel not being present, and listened to the reading by the judge of an opinion of the supreme court of Massachusetts, in Commonwealth v. Tuey, 8 Cush., 1,…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
This case is before the law court on exceptions.
I. The defendant excepts to the lefusal of the presiding judge to allow exceptions to one of his rulings. The judge placed his refusal upon the ground that the right to except to that particular ruling had been waived. The facts are these: The defendant was indicted for manslaughter. He first pleaded in abatement; and then, after his plea in abatement had been adjudged bad on demurrer, he pleaded further that he was not guilty. The presiding judge declined to allow exceptions to the ruling upon the plea in abatement, upon the ground, that by…
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