State v. Bantley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for manslaughter; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before HitcheocJe, J. Yerdict guilty, and motion for a new trial for error in the charge of the court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
On the night of June 11th, 1876, the accused inflicted a severe gun-shot wound upon the arm of one March, between the elbow and shoulder. March died eleven days thereafter of lock-jaw. The prosecution claimed that death resulted from the wound; the accused claimed that it resulted from the treatment of the case by the attending physicians. The wound was dressed in the first instance by one surgeon, afterwards to the time of death by another; these differed radically as to the manner in which the case should have been treated.
The counsel for the accused claimed, and asked the court to charge…
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