People v. Quicksall

On the 2d day of July, 1937, Charles Quicksall, defendant herein, shot and killed Mrs. Grace Parker. He was arrested on the same day, and owing to a self-inflicted wound, he was taken to a hospital where he was kept under guard. The death of Mrs. Parker was evidently the culmination of a suicide pact entered into by defendant and the deceased in which it was agreed that in event of detection of their unduly intimate relations they “would die together.” On July 15, 1937, defendant having recovered, was arraigned on a complaint and warrant charging him with murder. He waived examination and was…