State v. Bilansky
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The questions of law arising upon the trial of this cause being important and doubtful, in the opinion of the Judge before whom the same was tried in the Court below, he reported the case to the Supreme Court, under the provisions of Chap. 115, ¶. 778, Stab, of Mm.
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The questions of law arising upon the trial of this cause being important and doubtful, in the opinion of the Judge before whom the same was tried in the Court below, he reported the case to the Supreme Court, under the provisions of Chap. 115, ¶. 778, Stab, of Mm. The following are the points and authorities relied on by Counsel for the Prosecution : First. — In the rulings of the Court below, excepted to by Defendant’s Counsel, upon questions propounded to the witness, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, upon her cross examination, no error was commited. All the questions, ip. the exclusion of which the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Count
— Planpratj, J".
It is quite remarkable that a a Court in this country, at this day, should be called upon to investigate and decide questions of the benefit of clergy, and petit treason. Yet the peculiar provisions of our statute render it necessary. These subjects have so long been looked upon by lawyers and Courts as practically obsolete, that we enter upon an examination of them more in the spirit of curious research, than of useful application. Yet as the case in which they grise is one of capital moment, the prisoner is 'entitled to any benefit that the statute may allow her,…
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