Keith v. State

Appellant is under sentence of death for murder. The only assignment presented in briefs and oral argument is that the court erred in denying appellant’s motion for a new trial.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is questioned. The State produced witnesses whose testimony *379went to establish these facts and circumstances: In the autumn of 1899, appellant, a farmer in Warrick county, about forty years old, married, living with his wife and children, began a liaison with the deceased, Kora Kifer, daughter of a neighboring farmer, about eighteen years old, unmarried. In December…