State v. Sweetin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Bert L. Sweetin was charged with the murder of Laura L. Stine, his sister-in-law, convicted of murder in the first degree, and the judgment rendered was imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life. He appeals from the judgment, and his principal grounds for reversal are assigned errors in the instructions of the jury.

It appears that he and his wife had had a number of quarrels prior to the homicide and each of these was followed by a separation, when his wife would go to live with Laura L. Stine, her sister. After a quarrel on…