Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-19
eoYErrE's SENTENCE.
ne IL % Pay shs Full Penalty for
Observation-Disclosures He Toek Il.

By the time Judge Rising made bis
appearance this morning the District
Courtroom was we'll filled with spscta-
tors. who had .Ioonsrssatsd there TO hear
the passing Of sentence upon Alexander
Gsyette. convicted Of manslaughtsr.
The prisoner was brought In shortly
before court opened. Hs looked rather
pale and depressed. but when called
upon to stand up, his face flushed.
When asked the customary quss-
ton, II be had aught to inter.
pose a. . legal barrier to the
passing Of sentence he shook his head.
r. 3. Mitchell, one Of his counsel,
then arose and made . plea for . light
sentence. He said the prisoner con.
sidersd hs had had . fair and impartial
trial, and desired to return thanks TO the
Judge and jury. The counsel asked to
call the attention OF the Court TO the
fact that Goyetts was utterly oblivious
when the deed for which be was CON.
victed Was committed. and while desiring
to place no impediment In the way Of
Justice, II Il was In bis power to do 90,
he asked In behalf Of the wife and chill.
dreu of the prisoner. and In considsra-
| ton OF the fact that never before had
the prisoner been arrested for Q crime,
that his Honor be merciiul In passing
Judgment. He statsd the prisoners
conduct In jail had been oil that
could DO wished, and that the
prisoner had assured him bis actions In
the future, no matter what his sentence
| might be, would DO such % to attempt
TO atone for the errors Of the past.
His Honor said: Mr.. Mitchsll-In
passing sentence upon aprisonsr l o..
ways consider the circumstances attend.
ing the commission OF the crime oil
which no stands convicted. / have ever
regarded the law prescribing an impris-
onment OF ten years for granddaughter 90
very light, I conceive II to be slight
punishment for the taking oil human life
unjustiasbly.
Turning to the prisoner the Judge
sentenced him % follows:
TIE SENTENCE.
You ought to consider yourself re-
markedly fortunate aud thankful TO the
Jury for their lsniency. as the evidence
as given at the trial would have sup
ported O verdict for either Of the higher
degrees OF murder. In reducing your
offenss to nanslauehter the jury must
have been influenced BY the oircum-
stance that liquor had 80 affected your
brain that you were not fully conscious,
and assumed consequently that you were
incapacitated from forming . deliberate
intent to kill. thereby excluding from the
deed the essential elements OF malice
and premedi.ation. They certainly, ~
their verdict. gave you the benefit OF any
reasonable doubt upon this issue, and
you have therefore escaped . more ssri-
Gus punishment.
The circumstances attending the homi.
eide illustrate II to have been shocking
and most unwarrsntsd, and % such de-
serves the extreme penalty prescribed by
law a. p~unishmont for b crime Of
which you are adjudged guilty.
It 10 the judgment OF the Court that
you, Alexander Goystts. be imprisoned
in the State Penitsntiary, at hard labor,
for the period Of ten years, for man
daughter.
Sheriff to execute this Judgment.
RICHARD RISING. District Judge.
During the reading OF the sentence
Goystte stood with his arms folded.
With the reading Of the last paragraph
his eyes filled with tears, and he seemed
to bs struggling to keep from crying.
The Sheriff took him TO Carson on the
2 O'Clock train this AFTERNOON.