Dugans v. Livingston

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• explaining that express malice and irresistible passion cannot coexist
• in a prosecution for killing by stabbing, evidence that the defendant stabbed another man during a fight over the deceased a few minutes before he stabbed the deceased was admissible in that it was a contemporaneous crime, the circumstances of which were inseparable from the crime charged
• in a prosecution for killing by stabbing, evidence that the defendant stabbed another man during a fight over the deceased a few minutes before he stabbed the deceased was admissible in that it was a contemporaneous crime, the circumstances of which were inseparable from the crime charged

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