State v. Baldwin
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Atchison District Court. Prosecution for murder. Trial at the November Term, 1885. The jury found the defendant, William Baldwin, guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the first count of the information. The court overruled the defendant’s motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, and on January 11, 1886, sentenced the defendant in accordance with the verdict. He appeals. The opinion contains a sufficient statement of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
William Baldwin was informed against, tried and convicted of the crime of murdering his sister, Mary Baldwin. The information consists of two counts, in the first of which it is charged that the defendant, on or about the 8th day of July, 1885, administered to Mary Baldwin an anaesthetic, to wit, chloroform, which is alleged to be a deadly poison, with the felonious intent to kill and murder her. In the second count the charge is, that the death of Mary Baldwin was occasioned by the defendant pressing a pillow on, over and against her…
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