State v. Mumford

On the morning of April 11, 1923, Hale Talbot, a neighbor of the defendant, was shot and killed by the latter. There were no eye-witnesses to the homicide other than the defendant, and the testimony against him consisted chiefly of his admissions made to various persons after the tragedy and circumstantial evidence in connection therewith.

*428The body of the deceased was found on the south bank oE Rock Creek, on land leased or owned by the defendant near the latter’s place of abode, as he had described the situation to several parties to whom he told the story of the • homicide. In substance he…