Mendenhall v. State

This writ of error is directed to a judgment sentencing Mendenhall to life imprisonment consequent upon a verdict of murder in the first degree with a recommendation to the mercy of the court.

The indictment alleged an assault upon one Susan F. Elliot “and in some way and manner, and by some means, instrument and weapons to the jurors unknown, he the said John J. Mendenhall did then and there unlawfully and from premeditated design to effect the death of the said Susan F. Elliot, inflict and create in the said Susan F. Elliot certain mortal injuries and mortal sick*554ness, a further description…