Liska v. State

By the Court.

This plaintiff in error, Prank Liska, was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree. The jury did not recommend mercy. The trial judge imposed the sentence of death. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court. Liska prosecutes error in this court.

The deceased was the wife of Liska. The evidence clearly indicated that death resulted from personal violence, to wit, strangulation. The body, when found by firemen and policemen between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning, was in a burning chicken house, owned by Liska, and located in the rear of the…