State v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was a criminal prosecution in the-district court of Leavenworth county, upon information charging the defendant, David E. Davis, with committing murder-in the first degree, in killing his wife, Matilda Davis, on October 9, 1890. The information charges, among other things, as follows:

“And the said David E. Davis, with a certain pillow, and a certain substance the exact character of which is to said county attorney unknown, which he, the said David E. Davis, in his hand then and there had and held, did unlawfully, feloniously,…