State v. Bohan
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Saline District Court. Information for murder. Trial, and verdict of guilty, at the November Term 1874. A motion for a new trial was made, and continued until the March Term 1875, when a new trial was refused, and defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty years. From this sentence Bohan appeals.
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Appeal from Saline District Court. Information for murder. Trial, and verdict of guilty, at the November Term 1874. A motion for a new trial was made, and continued until the March Term 1875, when a new trial was refused, and defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty years. From this sentence Bohan appeals. Numerous errors are assigned, and are discussed in briefs of counsel, as filed, but only two questions are considered by this court, and these, and the facts and proceedings in relation to them sufficiently appear in- appellant’s brief, and the opinion, infra.…
1Opinion of the Court
■The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kingman, C. J.:
The appellant wás tried for the murder of Thomas Anderson, and found guilty of murder in the second degree, and brings the-case to this court by appeal. In the argument attention is called to two errors of the court below. These alleged errors are, first, in not granting the *416motion for a change of venue, and second, in admitting the so-called dying declaration of William N. Anderson in evidence.
Did the court err in refusing to order a change of venue? The application was supported by the affidavits of the appellant, the sheriff, and the…
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