State v. O'Donnell

1. Homicide: murder: specific intent to kill: non-justifiabie inference. Inez, the wife of the defendant, was discovered in a dying condition, because of statements made by defendant when more or less intoxicated, which led to an entrance into the building wherein the couple lived. The searchers went to -the basement , „ . , , ,. because of groans heard, and the woman was found lying on its floor, naked and unconscious. She died soon thereafter without having spoken intelligently, and from the effect of m,any and horrible wounds *340which, in their very nature, could not have been self-inflicted.…