State v. Laudano
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder in the first degree, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven county and tried to the jury before Rorabaclc, •/.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The accused also filed a motion for a new trial upon the ground of a verdict against the evidence, and because of alleged improper comments by the State’s Attorney in his argument to the jury.
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Indictment for murder in the first degree, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven county and tried to the jury before Rorabaclc, •/.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The accused also filed a motion for a new trial upon the ground of a verdict against the evidence, and because of alleged improper comments by the State’s Attorney in his argument to the jury. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
The accused was indicted for the murder of Hugh McKeon, a policeman of the city of New Haven. The evidence in the case on the part of the State tended to show that the deceased, with two other policemen, on the 31st day of July, 1901, went to the dwelling-house of the accused in New Haven, about midnight, for the purpose of arresting a woman there; that the three policemen gained peaceable admission to the hall of the house, and that while in there the accused shot McKeon with a pistol, thereby inflicting upon him certain mortal wounds of which he died soon after.
The accused claimed that he…
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