State v. Williams

This is an appeal from a judgment of death against the defendant for the murder of Alma Nesbitt. The only question is whether there was sufficient proof on the trial that she is dead. No evidence was offered by the defense- The facts, as shown by the prosecution, are that in May, 1899, Miss Nesbitt left her home and relatives in Iowa, and came, a stranger, to Oregon, with the defendant, to whom she was then engaged, with the avowed purpose of taking up a homestead adjoining the one belonging to him, with the understanding that they each should obtain title to their land, and then be married,…