Parker v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to District Court, Dincoln County; HoN. David H. Craig, Judge. Daniel Parker was convicted of murder in the first degree and brings error. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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Error to District Court, Dincoln County; HoN. David H. Craig, Judge. Daniel Parker was convicted of murder in the first degree and brings error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. Defendant was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial by reason of prejudicial statements of the court in the presence of the-jury, errors in the exclusion or admission of and the giving of improper and the refusal of proper instructions; failure of the court to so control and conduct the trial so that a fair trial is not secured, is reversible error. (42 S. E. 226.) The weight and sufficiency…
1Opinion of the Court
Beard, Justice.
The plaintiff in error, Daniel Parker, was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, in the district court of Lincoln county, and sentenced to suffer death. From that judgment he brings the case to this court, assigning numerous errors and irregularities occurring on the trial, which his counsel contends were prejudicial and deprived the defendant of a fair and impartial trial.
An information charging the defendant with murder in the first degree was filed in the district court May 3, 1915. May 4, 1915, he was arraigned, and being without counsel and it appearing…
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