Messer v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter for convenience referred .to as the defendant, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County jipon a .charge of murder in the first degree. The person alleged to have been murdered by him was Ella Fare Messer, his wife.

He was tried, found guilty of murder in the second degree, adjudged by the court to be guilty and sentenced to be confined in the State prison for the term of his natural life. .

*620To review this judgment writ of error was taken from this court.

The only assignment of error is that the trial court erred in overruling defendant's motion for…