MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
IN POTENTIALLY CAPITAL CASES (1987)
by Hugo Adam Bedau and Michael L. Radelet

Excerpt from Appendix A: Catalogue of Defendants

JENNINGS, JASPER (white). 1906. Oregon. Jennings was convicted of first-degree murder for killing his father and sentenced to death. The state supreme court reversed the conviction because of improper testimony by a prosecution witness.1 On motion at retrial, the charges were dismissed. Jennings’ sister had told others that she had committed the crime.2

Footnotes

1. State v. Jennings, 48 Or. 483, 87 P. 524 (1906).
 
2. See Bedau, Capital Punishment in Oregon, 1903-64, 45 OR. L. REV. 1, 24 n.96.