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ANNIE E. VANN, Appellant, v. REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, Appellee.

RE-ARGUED FEBRUARY 17, 1911. DECIDED FEBRUARY 24, 1911. 

Toliver, C. J., Wood and McCants-Stewart, JJ.

When the evidence is clear the judgment will not be disturbed.

Mr. Chief Justice Toliver delivered the opinion of the court: 

Murder—Appeal from Judgment. This is an appeal forwarded to this court upon a bill of exceptions taken out by the appellant who was tried and convicted and a sentence of death pronounced against her by the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Montserrado County at its September term, A. D. 1910. 

The material facts in this case clearly set forth that appellant in a most barbarous manner murdered one George Andrews, a little heathen boy residing with her at the settlement of Bensonville, Montserrado County, on the 18th day of April, A. D. 1910, by suspending him up with a clothes line with which she tied both of his hands and his body and leaving him in said condition for over 24 hours without food. After the death of the said George Andrews his body was exhumed by the coroner, who held an inquest, and the appearance of the body was badly mutilated; all of which the records show was traced to the conduct of the appellant towards deceased. 

The jury and court below could not have arrived at any other conclusion than that wilful murder had been committed by the appellant. 

This court, therefore, adjudges that the judgment of the lower court be affirmed ; and the clerk is hereby commanded to issue a mandate to the court below as to this decision. 

C. B. Dunbar, for appellant. C. D. B. King, Attorney General, for appellee. 

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