State v. Alexander
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Wallace, J., Pickens, July, 1888. The defendant, Thomas P. Alexander, was indicted for the murder of his wife, Jane, on the night of March 4, 1888. The deceased was killed with an axe, her body being found with three wounds, one severing the wind-pipe, another cutting the jugular vein, and a third cutting the neck-bone — either one of which was sufficient to produce instant death. The defendant had admitted that he killed his wife. The defence was insanity.
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Before Wallace, J., Pickens, July, 1888. The defendant, Thomas P. Alexander, was indicted for the murder of his wife, Jane, on the night of March 4, 1888. The deceased was killed with an axe, her body being found with three wounds, one severing the wind-pipe, another cutting the jugular vein, and a third cutting the neck-bone — either one of which was sufficient to produce instant death. The defendant had admitted that he killed his wife. The defence was insanity. The evidence showed that defendant had something like chronic chorea or St. Yitus’s dance, that affected his physical condition.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Simpson.
The defendant was indicted and tried at the July term of the Court of General Sessions, 1888, for Pickens County, for the murder of his wife, Jane Alexander. He was convicted, and now appeals upon exceptions to his honor’s charge to the jury, alleging error both as to matters charged and in refusals to charge.
The two first exceptions impute error, because his honor declined to charge as requested, that in order to constitute murder, the'testimony must satisfy the jury that there was a premeditated and formed design to take…
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