State v. Williams

(dissenting.) Firmly convinced, as I am, from the record, that the defendant is guilty, I respectfully dissent from the reversing opinion of the majority.

No one can read this record and not be convinced beyond all doubt that this defendant took the life of Miss Thorsdale. I understand all to so concede. Against all the array of witnesses and testimony against the defendant, there is no word of evidence to the contrary, except that of the defendant himself, interested, impeached, and discredited as it is, not only by contradictory statements, but by his past life. As said in State v. Wegener,…