Fickling v. State

George Eickling was tried for the offense of murder, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty, without a recommendation. The defendant made a motion for new trial, containing the usual general grounds, and subsequently filed an amendment containing special assignments of error.

1. Error is assigned upon the following charge of the court: “The State’s contention in this case is that the prisoner at the bar and his wife were at outs; that she had gone to her father’s house, and that he went to -that house, and that there, while talking with *488the father of his wife, a brother of the wife, the…