State v. Woodrow

Brannon, President:

William Woodrow was indicted in Mineral county for the *528murder of his child, Ruth Elizabeth Woodrow, 'and was sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years upon a verdict of murder in the second decree. The deceased, was a baby of fourteen months age, and was in the arms of its mother, at her breast, when a pistol shot killed it, the ball passing through the baby’s head, and wounding the mother, according to her evidence. The accused.offeredaplea in abatement to quash the indictment on the ground that his wife had been examined before the grand jury; but the plea was…