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56 Mont. 393

State v. Riggs

Montana Supreme Court

Decided November 5, 1919

Montana Supreme Court · decided 1919-11-05

C. Spencer, Judges. George T. Riggs was convicted of murder. From a judgment imposing the death penalty and an order denying a new trial, he appeals. A hypothetical question must assume the truth of the evidence of which it is composed and upon which it is based. (8 Ency. of Evidence, 620, 621; 11 R. O. L. 581; Jones v. Chicago etc. By.

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Reversed and remanded · Decided 1919-11-05

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1967

10 state decisions

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Mr. Justice Hurly :

¶1I concur in the result' reached by Mr. Justice Holloway concerning the trial court’s rulings as to the *400testimony of the witness Armstrong. I think the testimony of the witness Button should have been received, though I do not feel that its exclusion, in view of the record as to the condition of the body of 'the deceased, was prejudicial error.

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