State v. Magers
Oregon Supreme Court
From Polk : Geoege H. Burnett, Judge. A former conviction of W. G. Magers was reversed (35 Or. 520), and on a second trial the defendant was again convicted and sentenced to be hanged.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Wolverton
The defendant was tried for and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and brings this appeal from the judgment which followed, relying upon several grounds of error for the reversal thereof, which we will discuss in their order.
1. The first is touching the action of the court in refusing to withdraw from the consideration of the jury the testimony of one D. McLauchlan, a witness for the state, who testified, among other things, in effect, that he was the Chief of Police of the City of Portland; that he remembered the circumstance of the defendant, William G. Magers, being…
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