The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-02-18
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ana WIlHuTcW Ier Ileit ol HOt gun,
to the Indictment charging her will
murder in the second degree, and en-
tered special plea, to the effect tina
she had once been tried for the sam,
crime and cquittcd and had been in jeo
pardy. 1t was upon the suggestion
CT Judge Quinn that she withdrew he
plea OF not guilty, preparatory t.
entcrting her special plea. and tn
court granted her permission to with
draw her former plea and enter he
new one. ..5s >
Special Plea Is Made.
c. !. Laurisch read the special plea
as follows:
Being arraigned and required
to plead To the, Indictment charging
her with murder in the second
degree, the defendant pleads:
That she is not guilty of the
ofrcnse charged in this indictment,
and
The defendant pleads that she
has already been acquitted of the
offence charged in this indictment
by the Judgment of the district
court i'm and for the county of
Blue Earth and state of Minnesota,
rendered at the city OF Mankato,
in said county of Blue Earth on
the 3lst day OF December, A. D.
1909, all and only as hereinafter
particularly SCI forth, viz:
That on the 18th day of Novem-
Der A. d. 1909 the grand jury of
said county of Blue Earth re.
turned TO said court an Indictment
charging this defendant with the
crime of murder in the first de-
gree. IIere followed copy of the
indictment)
That said Grace Ledbcter in the
Indictment is one and the same
person as this defendant, and that
said Holland J. Ledbeter is the
same Holland J. Ledbeter mentioned
in the Indictment upon which this
defendant is now and here ar
raigned, and that the ofiensc of
murder IN the first, degree charged
i'm said Indictment is the same Of
Tense as the ofiense of murder in
the second degree charged in the
indictment upon which this defen-
dant is now and here arraigned.
That being arraigned and re-
quired to plead to said Indictment
so charging this defendant
with murder in the first degree
this defendant on the 10th day of
November A. d. 1909, pleaded there.
to az follows:
THE defendant pleads that she
is not guilty of the offense charged
in this indictment"
That thereupon and on the l4th
day of December. A.. D. 1909, this
defendant was placed upon trial
for the crime of murder in the
first degree, as, charged in said
Indictment, jury was impaneled
and sworn and said trial then con-
tinued until the 3lst day of Decem-
Ter, A.. D.. 1909, when said cause
was submitted to the jury, which
Jury retired for deliberatiOn, and
on said 3lst day of December A.
d. 1909, returned into court with
the following verdict:
1--WE the jury in the above en-
titled action, find the defendant
not guilty. Dated this 3lst day
of December A. ID. 1909. VIII
Denison, foreman" whereupon the
court ordered and adiudged that
this defendant be discharged from
court and from the custody of the
sheriff and jailor of said county
OF Blue Earth.
That the judge of the district
court who presided at said trial
was Hon A. r. Pau, ST., the duly
elected, qualified, and acting Judge
of the district court in and for
the county of Blue Earth and
sixth judicial district of the state
OF Minnesota, and that the attor-
neys who appeared for and con-
Quoted the defense of this defend
ant upon said arraisnment and
trial were S. D. Wilson, c. J.
Laurisch, and A. r. Pau, ,Jr., esqs.,
all duly qualified and admitted
attorneys at law in the State of
Minnesota.
That said A. r. Pau, Jr., was
and is by birth a son of the said
presiding judge, Hon. A. r Pau,
Sr.. all of which at all times was
we'll known to the Hon. George z.
{ Peterson, assistant attorney general
Of the state of Minnesota, and
Walter A. Plymat, Esq, county
attorney and to w. r. Geddes,
Esq, assistant county attorney, of
said county of Blue Earth. which
said attorneys conducted the trial
of said cause ON behalf of the
State of Minnesota, and that no
objection was made by said prose-
cutting attorneys or any other per-
son or person to ss;c Hon. A.
II. Pau, ST., presiding as the trial
judge upon said trial, or to said
A. r. Pau, Jr., acting as one of
the attorneys for this defendant
in the trial OF said cause, and no
motion or request for a change of
venue of said action was made or
suggested by any of said parties
to said action or their attorneys,
nor was any request made that any