State v. Tilden
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Second Judicial District for the County of Nez Perce. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, J udge. Appellant was charged with murder and convicted of manslaughter. “In criminal cases, and especially in capital felonies, where members of the jury are permitted to read editorial comments unfavorable to the accused, a new trial ought always to be granted.”
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Second Judicial District for the County of Nez Perce. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, J udge. Appellant was charged with murder and convicted of manslaughter. “In criminal cases, and especially in capital felonies, where members of the jury are permitted to read editorial comments unfavorable to the accused, a new trial ought always to be granted.” (Thompson and Merriam on Juries, sec. 531, p. 413, note and authorities cited; People v. Murray, 85 Cal. 350, 24 Pac. 666; Farrer v. State, 2 Ohio St. 54; Walker and Black v. State, 37 Tex. 366; Hare v. State, 4 How.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorgan, J.
— On the evening of May 6, 1914, the appellant, a Nez Perce Indian policeman, together with some other Indian policemen, under the direction of Theodore Sharp, *266Esq., superintendent of the Nez Perce Indian school at Lapwai, Idaho, went to Joseph, a station on the Northern Pacific railway, at a point where said railway, which was formerly the Palouse & Spokane railway, crosses the former Nez Perce Indian reservation, for the purpose of intercepting certain other Nez Perce Indians who were returning from Pullman, Washington, where they had gone to play baseball, and for the purpose of making…
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