Arrighini

The defendant was tried upon a charge of murder and convicted of manslaughter. The appeal is from the judgment and a denial of a new trial.

January 10, 1897, defendant, his brother Dominique, and their uncle Angelo Arrighini, dined with one Eomori, at the latter’s cabin in Truckee. After dinner, at about 6 o’clock P. M., he started to go “up town.” There was some difficulty in finding the key to the cabin, and defendant went off alone toward his cabin, which was about two hundred feet away. Soon after his brother went in the same direction.

It seems that defendant went to the cabin occupied by his uncle, his brother, one Eogantini, and himself. In that vicinity, without cause or apparent purpose, he fired two shots from his revolver, and then, meeting his brother, he fired the remaining three shots at him, killing him almost instantly.

After the shooting the defendant exhibited signs of great grief and sorrow, protesting that he thought—in the feeble light —that a tramp was approaching him in an attitude which indicated that he was about to spring upon him.

Defendant had been ill for several days, and on that day had taken a large quantity of quinine—according to his testimony…