State v. Murray

By the Court,

Thayer, J.:

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction of the appellant by the circuit court for the county of Multnomah for the crime of murder in the first degree. The indictment charged the appellant with having, on the 6th day of January, 1884, in said county of Multnomah, purposely and of deliberate and premeditated malice, killed Alfred Jenke by shooting him with a shotgun. The trial upon said indictment was had in January, 1884, and the principle ground of defense was that appellant, when he committed the act, was insane. The trial of the case occupied some ten days,…