State v. Kingcade

The defendant is indicted for murder in the first degree.

It is charged that defendant with deliberate and premeditated malice cast and threw his wife, Emma, upon the floor; that while so lying upon the floor, the defendant struck, beat and kicked her upon the head, stomach, back and sides; that he cast and *98threw her to the floor by striking and beating her with both hands and feet. Her ¡body from her knees to her head was covered all over with bruises. Her face was bruised; there was a cut in her lip; there was a cut behind the ear. Blood was spattered on the walls of three rooms in the…