State v. Bradbury

The respondent, Frank E. Bradbury, lived with an unmarried sister, Harriet, in a two-and-a-half story building situated on Main Street in the City of Saco. They were old people and the last survivors of their family. In June, 1938, Harriet was in failing health. She appears to have suffered some injury from a fall and during the night of J une 9 she remained in a reclining chair in the front room of their home. About four o’clock in the morning of June 10 she died. The respondent thereupon built a hot fire in the furnace in the basement of the house, tide a rope around the legs of his…