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4 Mont. 148

Territory v. Tunnell

Montana Supreme Court

Decided August 15, 1881

Montana Supreme Court · decided 1881-08-15

<p> Appeal from First District, Jefferson County. </p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1899

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Decided 1881-08-15

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Galbraith, J.

¶1The principal question in this case is essentially the same as that presented in the case of The Territory v. Edmonson, decided at this term.

¶2We might also notice an additional error assigned by the appellant, viz., that the judge, in charging the jury, incorrectly stated in his instructions that the defendant admitted the shooting and killing of the deceased, as charged in the indictment, when, as the record shows, the defendant’s admission was that “'the shot he fired killed Jones, at the time and place alleged in the indictment.” This statement was evidently misleading in its character, and prejudicial to the defendant.

¶3For this reason, and also for the reason assigned in the case of Territory v. Edmonson, above mentioned, we are of the opinion that the judgment in this case should be reversed.

¶4It is therefore ordered that the judgment herein appealed from be reversed, and the case remanded for a new trial.

¶5Judgment reversed.

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