People v. . Hughson

About eight o’clock in the morning of the 23d day of June, 1896, Elizabeth Hughson, the wife of the defendant, was found, in the house occupied by her, covered with blood, and suffering from four gunshot wounds. One bullet had entered the back part of the head, struck the skull, deflected downward, and lodged in the muscles of the neck; another had entered near the nose, passing nearly through the head, and imbedded itself in the brain tissues ; another had lodged in the bones of the wrist; and the other had passed through the index finger. She was conveyed to a hospital in the city of…