Canter v. Commonwealth

This writ of error brings under review the judgment of the Circuit Court of Washington county overruling the motion of the prisoner, James Canter, for a new trial, and condemning *801him to death for the murder of Maude Wilson, in accordance with the verdict of the jury.

The attorney-general and assistant attorney-general, with characteristic fairness, concede that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction; yet, they conceived it to be their duty to call the court’s attention to the fact that the evidence, though copied into the record, was not made part of it by proper bill of…