A Digest Of The Cases And Notes Contained In American Criminal Reports

Author : American Criminal Reports
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230043524
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book A Digest of the Cases and Notes Contained in American Criminal Reports, Volumes I-Xv; Together with a Table of Cases Alphabetically Arranged written by American Criminal Reports and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...a few hours, his death not being the subject of the charge. State v. Bohan (Kan.), 2-278, 279. 439 Where two parties, with several men on each side, had fought, causing several deaths, dying statements prejudicial to defendant, made by a person other than the one for whose death he was on trial, but killed in the same encounter, held, improperly admitted. State v. Weatfall (Iowa), 3-343, 347. D. Wsronr AND Surrrcrsncr, In General. 440 The evidence in the ease examined, and found suflicient to sustain the verdict of the jury. Bradshaw v. State (Neb.), 5-199, 509. 441 On a trial for murder, proof that a skeleton had been found corresponding in sex, size and race with the man whom respondent was charged with killing, was sufficient direct evidence of a corpus delieti, and sufficiently laid the foundation for proving the skeleton to be that of the murdered man by circumstantial evidence. Mo-Culloch v. State (Ind.), 1-318, 319. 442 Note: As to sufliciency of circumstantial evidence to establish the corpus delieti, 4-140, 141. Identity of Deceased. 443 Under Penal Code of New York, section 181, prohibiting a conviction "unless the death of the person alleged to have been killed, and the fact of the killing by the defendant as alleged, are each established as independent facts, --the former by direct proof, and the latter beyond a reasonable doubt,"--the accused may be convicted of murder without direct proof of the identity of his victim. People v. Palmer (N. Y.), 7-399. Intent. 444 The evidence tended to show that a mother and her three children were killed at night, while being in separate beds, by having their skulls crushed with some blunt weapon, and that their house was then burnt. The evidence was circumstantial. The verdict...