Legal Opinion

State v. Brinte

Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer

Decided May 27, 1904PublishedCited by 13 opinions

At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for New Castle County, held in May, 1904, the defendants, two colored men, were put upon trial for murder in the first degree, for the felonious • killing of one John R. Taylor, a colored man, in Wigglesworth’s livery stable, on Tenth street, near Orange, in the city of Wilmington, on the night of Sunday, January 3, 1904. The further facts appear in the confessions of the prisoners.

1Opinion of the Court

Grubb, J.,

charging the jury :

Gentlemen of the jury :—In this indictment Walter Brinte and John Jiner, alias John Joiner, the prisoners at the bar, stand charged with murder of the first degree, for the felonious killing, with express malice aforethought, of John R. Taylor, in the month of January of the present year, at Wilmington hundred, in this county. The first count of the indictment charges that the death of the said Taylor was caused by mortal wounds inflicted by Walter Brinte by the means and in the manner described therein, whilst the said John Jiner was aiding and abetting the said…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. the People v. Ransom.New York Supreme Court · 1831
  2. Goodwin v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
  3. Mingia v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1870

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Jenkins v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1967
  2. Wilson v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1954
  3. State v. PritchettSuperior Court of Delaware · 1961
  4. State v. CareyDelaware Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1935
  5. Pitts v. WhiteSuperior Court of Delaware · 1954

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