State v. Clark
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lane: George F. Skipworth, Judge. In Bano. The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Lane County upon a charge ol murder in the second degree alleged to have been committed on July 25, 1919, by unlawfully, purposely, and maliciously shooting one Charles L.. Taylor with a rifle.
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From Lane: George F. Skipworth, Judge. In Bano. The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Lane County upon a charge ol murder in the second degree alleged to have been committed on July 25, 1919, by unlawfully, purposely, and maliciously shooting one Charles L.. Taylor with a rifle. He was tried before a jury and found guilty as charged, but the verdict was set aside and a new trial granted; the reason given by the court for such action being that there was no evidence to justify the verdict. Thereafter he was again put upon trial and a verdict of manslaughter was rendered, accompanied…
1Opinion of the CourtMcBRIDE, J.
1. The evidence in the case is purely circumstantial and covers nearly one thousand pages of manuscript. The appeal is based to a great extent upon the assumption that there is no evidence to justify the verdict, and a discussion of the principal points in the evidence adduced by the state is therefore necessary. The statement in the brief of the state consumes forty pages of the brief and would occupy a like space in the reports. The statement by defendant consumes twelve printed pages and both are in the main fair, although both are colored more or less by conclusions drawn by the…
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