 | West Hughes Humphreys, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1841 - 620 pages
...upon his trial at the June term, 1837, judge Powell presiding, upon the plea of not guilty, and found guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled. A motion was also made to arrest the judgment of the court. This motion was overruled... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1859 - 926 pages
...considered by the jury, who, nevertheless, under the direction of the court, rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made upon the ground that new and important evidence had been discovered since the verdict, and also... | |
 | Amasa Junius Parker - 1868 - 738 pages
...People. The court refused so to charge, to which refusal counsel excepted. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made, on the ground of the verdict being against the law and the evidence; but the court refused to... | |
 | 1886 - 546 pages
...taken, by which the place of trial was removed from Lancaster county to Otoe county. On the second trial the jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled, and the court imposed upon him the penalty of death. He now prosecutes error in... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1870 - 1066 pages
...shooting with a pistol. The chief ground of defence was that the deceased committed suicide. Verdict, guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial, and exceptions taken to rulings of the court, were argued and overruled. The prisoner was sentenced... | |
 | 1872 - 844 pages
...derangemeut. In the absence of such signs, it is of little importance. The prisoner, as stated, was convicted of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made by the prisoner's counsel, and, among other reasons which he adduced, was the fact that I had... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1744 pages
...returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and he was sentenced to be executed on December 5, 18S4. A bill of exceptions was taken, and Hartnett is seeking a reversal of... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 pages
...charge of the court ; none of which were considered by the Supremo Court. The jury found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made ; it was overruled ; and on the 7th of October 1872, the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged.... | |
 | 1897 - 642 pages
...as will do justice to the Commonwealth and to the prisoner at the bar." The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, a motion for a new trial was refused, and sentence was passed, whereupon this appeal was taken on the ground that the Court erred... | |
 | 1896 - 644 pages
...respondent was engaged for the defence in the trial of one Mudgett, alias Holmes, who was convicted of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was made. At the hearing, before THAYER, PJ, ARNOLD and WILLSON, JJ., an affidavit was offered, signed... | |
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Chavez murder, the jury brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was denied, and the prisoners were again sentenced to hang on October 15, 1896. 
