Alder v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner»—

Affirming.

The appellant, whom we shall call the defendant, was indicted for the murder of his wife, Maggie Alder. He was convicted, and his punishment -fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life. Late in the afternoon of July 9, 1918, the dead body of a human being was found on the east bank of the Cumberland river, near the city -of Pineville. The hair had slipped off of the head, the flesh had fallen away from the face and skull, and the body was in such a state of decomposition that it was im possible, from a view of the body, to tell who…