State v. Lambert
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal by defendant. Appeal denied. Judgment for the State. The defendant was convicted by a jury in Piscataquis County for the murder in the first degree of J. Wesley Allen of Shirley. He made a motion in the court below to have the verdict set aside. This motion having been overruled, he appealed to this court. The case appears fully in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The evidence is plenary, and it is not now controverted, that in the evening or night of Sunday, May 12, 1901, J. Wesley Allen of Shirley, his wife, and their daughter Carrie, were *52murdered, and that the farm buildings of Allen in Shirley, house, ell, shed and barn, were burned to destroy the evidences of the crime. The defendant was indicted for the murder of J. Wesley Allen. As the result of a lengthy trial in which all of his rights seem to have been carefully protected by the presiding justice, he was convicted of murder in the first degree. His motion to set aside the verdict was…
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