People v. Vanderpool

By the Court,

Brown, J.

Gentlesiex of the Jury: — The People, by tin; public prosecutor, have informed, agaiust the respondent at the bar, charging him with having wilfully and with malice aiorethought, on the fifth day of September, A. 1). 1869, at the City of Manistee in county of Manistee, in this State, killed and murdered Herbert Field.

The theory of the prosecution is, that Field was murdered in the Bank of Manistee, by the respondent; and to support this theory they rely upon the establishment of certain facts which, they insist, have the effect to carry conviction to the mind, of the…