State v. Moore

Charged, in the indictment with murdering his father, Jesse W. Moore, by shooting him with a shotgun, defendant being put on his trial, was found guilty of that charge, and sentenced to be hanged; hence this appeal.

Jesse W. Moore was killed on the sixteenth of November, 1899, while sleeping in his bed in a room of his dwelling house, and the weapon used was a double-barrelled shotgun belonging to him, and which was evidently but a few feet distant from the head and face of the victim at the time the gun was discharged. It seems that this discharge occurred about 3 or 3:30 a. m. In the room…