O'Hearn v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Douglas county: Abraham L. Sutton, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtLetton, J.
The defendant, Jay O’Hearn, was charged jointly with Raymond Nelson, Leo Angus and Joe Warren with murder in the first degree by shooting and killing one Neis Lausten on the 20th day of January, 1906, while in the attempt to perpetrate a robbery. O’Hearn was tried separately, convicted, and his punishment fixed by the jury at death. The other defendants pleaded not guilty, but afterwards the defendants Angus and Nelson were permitted to enter a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree, and were respectively sentenced to imprisonment for life. The defendant Warren was tried and acquitted.…
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