Sawyer v. State

The appellant was indicted for, and tried, and convicted of, the murder of his wife, Lizzie Sawyer, and sentenced to be executed. The case made against the accused by the evidence is, in substance, as follows:

The deceased, at the time of the homicide, was employed as chamber maid on the steamboat G. W. Thomas, which was then lying at the wharf in the city of Evansville, in Vanderburg county, in this State. On the morning of the 2d of February, 1871, one Delia Wilson, an acquaintance of the deceased, went on board the boat to see her. Soon after Delia Wilson went on board, the accused went on…