Hill v. State

August 30, 1926, Albert W. Hill, defendant, was informed against by the county attorney in and for Sheridan county and there charged with having unlawfully and maliciously shot Neil O’Blenness with a shotgun, on July 20, 1926, and *74that, from the wounds so inflicted, Neil O'Blenness instantly died. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at imprisonment for life. Defendant prosecutes error.

The defendant is 41 and his wife is 34 years of age. Their home has been in Sheridan county about 8 miles south of Gordon since 1915, and elsewhere in the same…