Williams v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Buffalo county. The plaintiff in error -was indicted for murder at the March term, 1876, of the district court for Kearney county. The cause was taken on change of venue . to Buffalo county, where the prisoner was tried at the March term, 1876, of that county, found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years.
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Error from the district court of Buffalo county. The plaintiff in error -was indicted for murder at the March term, 1876, of the district court for Kearney county. The cause was taken on change of venue . to Buffalo county, where the prisoner was tried at the March term, 1876, of that county, found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years. On the trial of the cause before Gaslin, J., the following, among other instructions, were given to the jury: 3. “ Should you find from the evidence in the case that the accused did the shooting as…
1Opinion of the Court
Lake, Ch. J.
In this case no less than twenty-six errors are formally assigned, many of which, however, are but repetitions, *337in slightly different language of a single complaint to the ruling of the court. Therefore we shall notice only those objections which seemed to be relied on in argument, or which possess at least the shadow of merit.
I. Taken in the order of occurrence, the first objection to be noticed was taken to the overruling of the defendant’s motion for a continuance of the case on account of the absence from the state of one George Hicks, who it was claimed was then in Iowa, and…
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