State v. Holland

In this criminal prosecution the information charged that defendant, while confined in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, had unlawfully struck and wounded Reuben Loos. A jury found defendant guilty, and he has appealed. His contentions concern (1) admissibility of statements made by him in response to official interrogation, (2) lack of a definition of the word “unlawfully” in jury instructions, and (3) constitutionality of the statute under which he was prosecuted.

Defendant, a prisoner, and Loos, a captain of the guards, had met about 3:30 p.m., February 9, 1967, in a yard of the…