State v. Kline

i. criminal denceunotive síouoí crime, I. It appears from the evidence that Anna Rickel, who was a single woman, was living at the house of one Haskins. She slept in a room upon the ground floor. There was a window near the bed in which she slept. On the ¡night of the 19 th of April, 1878, at about eleven o’clock, some one raised the window and discharged a shot-gun loaded with shot toward the bed. She was wounded upon the arm and -on the right side of the head. The gun was so heavily loaded, and the discharge was at such short range, that the shot passed through the head-board of the…