Wright v. State

The plaintiff in error, referred to herein as the accused, was charged with and convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree. He was adjudged to be confined in the Nebraska State Penitentiary for a definite term. He prosecutes error to review the record of his conviction.

The record establishes that the accused in his place of business, the Pastime Cafe at 604 North Sixteenth Street in the city of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, at about 11 o’clock on the evening of January 20, 1958, stabbed Robert Lattery, hereafter described as Lattery, in the abdomen with a knife from which injury…