State v. Seery

McClain, C. J

Defendant was put on trial for murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by striking one Moynihan on the head with a long round piece of iron, inflicting a mortal wound, from which said Moynihan soon after died. The evidence tended to show that defendant accosted the deceased on the street in the village of Walford with some reference to a difficulty which had occurred between them the preceding day on Moynihan’s farm near the village, and invited him to throw down some pieces of iron implements which he was carrying on his arm and engage in personal combat; that…