McKnight v. State

The appellant, Obediah McKnight, was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the circuit court of Adams county for the murder of his wife, Mattie McKnight. It appeared that on January 12, 1934, Mattie McKnight was at the home of her sister, Mary Scott, sitting at a table when some one outside knocked at the window and about that time a load of shot was fired through the window, struck said Mattie McKnight in the left breast, and killed her. Outside the window from which the shot was fired was found a block or stick of wood of some considerable size. Said Mattie McKnight, the…