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j Was it forth e. purpose only of inflicting upon him a grinl bodily injury ?Was ic for the-.purposesimply of compelling him to disclose, if he knew who had committed certain alleged offenses? Ko personal injury, being designed.Was it for the purpose merely of compelling him to leave the section of country in which lie resided, without intending his+ Vdeath or any great bodily harm.Was the common design merely to arrest the said Boyd Wilkinson because of his alleged commission of certain recent felonies in Johnson County ?These inquiries may be material to be resolved and answered in case you find the defendant .criminally ~ responsible for the death of Boyd Wilkinson, in detcrminiug the dtgrte of such guilt. If you find tbat there was 0combination of the persons named in the indictment; and a. common purpose resolved upon, you are to ascertain what that common purpose was,' and then any act or declaration of one sir idly in the prosecution or scope of tlial purpose binds the others, but not otherwise.If you find, from the evidence tbat tbc persons in. charge of Boyd Wilkinson did not push or cast him into the river, then you will proceed to inquire from the testimony, whither Wilkinson tJirnc himself into Ithe-riTxrz ' . ... ..
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Davenport Daily Gazette
Davenport, Iowa, US
Tue, May 17, 1859
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