Herren v. People

The defendant was tried for the murder of his wife, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of eight years at hard labor. The information was filed February 10, 1899, and the defendant was at once arrested, and up to the time of trial incarcerated in the county jail. He was not able to employ counsel, and the court, under the authority of our statute, appointed an attorney to defend him.

The evidence tends to show that Mrs. Herren’s death occurred in the forenoon of January 23, 1899. The theory of the prosecution was that it resulted from a blow on the…