People v. Treichel

Wiest,«J.

Charged, in common-law form, with the crime of murder, defendants stand convicted of manslaughter, and prosecute review on exceptions before sentence.

Henry Gerling, aged 85, lived alone, in the country near Watervliet, Berrien county. April 14, 1921, a neighbor, noticing no light in Mr. Gerling’s house for many nights, went over and found Mr. Gerling tied with wire, hands and feet, to the head and foot of his bedstead, with his body suspended off the side of the bed and one cheek bone rubbed raw where it touched the floor. He had been dead so long mortification was present. On a…