2 Dakota 188 | Supreme Court Of The Territory Of Dakota | 1879
In this case the defendant was convicted in the District Court of Lawrence county for the crime of murder, in the killing of one Minnie Callison, and the defendant brought the case to the Supreme Court by writ of error. The facts in brief were, that one Minnie Callison was murdered in her house at Deadwood, by being struck on the head with some blunt instrument while she was lying in bed, and sometime in the night time, about August 20, 1878. For this murder the defendant was indicted and convicted. No opinion has been written in the case, as Judge Barnes, to whom it was assigned, went out of office before preparing the opinion.