Nanfito v. State

In a prosecution by the state in the district court for Douglas county, Sam Nanfito, defendant, was accused of murder in the first degree, having killed his wife. The specific charge was that, in Douglas county, Nebraska, January 10, 1938, he then and there feloniously,' purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice shot Santina Nanfito with a revolver and as á result thereof she died January 11, 1938. He pleaded not guilty and upon a trial the jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree. For that felony he was sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of his natural life.…