Fowler v. State

Grice, Justice.

This is a murder case. The error assigned is the refusal of a new trial. No novel questions of law are involved, and no new applications of old principles. The nature of the seven special grounds of the motion for new trial are sufficiently indicated in the rulings announced in the headnotes. As to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, the testimony showed that, a twelve-year old, motherless boy, on whose life his father carried insurance with double indemnity in case of accidental death, lived with his father who operated a tourist camp. The father was a…