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• Title: Wiggins v. People
• Author : United States Supreme Court
• Release Date : January 01, 1876
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 65 KB

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Sect. 3 of the act of Congress of June 23, 1874 (18 Stat. 254), allows a writ of error from this court to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, where the defendant has been convicted of bigamy or polygamy, or has been sentenced to death for any crime. The present writ is brought under that statute to obtain a review of a sentence of death against plaintiff in error for the murder of John Kramer, commonly called Dutch John, in Salt Lake City. The only error insisted upon by counsel, who argued this case orally, was the rejection of testimony offered by the prisoner, as shown by the following extract from the bill of exceptions:–– 'The defendant, on the trial of this cause, called Robert Heslop as a witness in his defence, who testified:–– 'That, just a short time before the shooting, the deceased showed him a pistol which he (deceased) then had upon his person. Deceased, at this time, was sitting on a box on the opposite side of the street from the Salt Lake House, and in front of Reggels's store. 'The prosecuting attorney admitted that this was after the deceased was ejected from defendant's saloon.

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