Ulrich v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

Tlae appellant Ulrich, was accused by indictment’ and convicted of administering poison to his wife which produced her death. His punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. On this appeal, while assigning several errors, he relies chiefly for reversal upon what he asserts was the admission of incompetent evidence as a dying declaration. Appellant and deceased had not lived together for more than two years before her death. Appellant married her under protest, and soon after he had been arrested and placed in jail on a bastardy charge. He lived…