State of Oregon v. Hansen

The defendant, Margrethe Sofia Gabrielsen Hansen, has appealed from a judgment of conviction of the crime of murder in the first degree and a sentence of life imprisonment imposed in accordance with the recommendation of the jury.

The charging part of the indictment upon which the defendant was tried reads:

“The Said Margrethe Sofia Gabrielsen Hansen on the 10th day of September, 1950, in the County of Benton and State of Oregon, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously, purposely and of deliberate and premidated [sic] malice, kill one Sigrud [sic] Hansen by crushing…