State v. Brennan

The indictment charges the defendant with the crime of murder. The claim of the State is that, on the evening of the 27th day of April, 1917, she killed one Mc-Nulty, in an alley in Sioux City, by stabbing him with a knife. The evidence offered upon the trial tended to show that, on the evening of the alleged killing of McNulty, and shortly prior thereto, the defendant went to the home of his mother, to see deceased, where a controversy arose between them over a letter, which defendant claimed he had received from another woman. Defendant left the home' of deceased’s mother in a fit of anger,…