State v. McGinnis

Defendant was indicted in the circuit court of Howell county, for murder in the first degree for killing his wife Sarah McGinnis on the 21st day of May, 1882. He was tried and convicted, and brings the case to this court by appeal, and seeks a reversal of the judgment on the alleged grounds, among others to be hereafter noticed, that the court erred in giving the second, fourth and fifth instructions for the.State.

*3271. murder: deiib11“ons,: harmless error m. *326It is insisted that the court erred in the second instruction defining deliberately to mean, “ done in a cool *327state of the blood—that is,…