Scaife v. State

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Hal Scaife, 25 years of age, killed his wife and her mother by cutting and stabbing them with a hunting knife. When tried on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Scaife his plea of self-defense was partially disregarded by the jury when it returned a verdict of murder in the second degree. Prom the Court’s judgment of ten years in the penitentiary the defendant has appealed.

Assignments 1, 2, 3, and 4 relate to evidence; 5 and 6 question instructions given and refused, while 7 complains of the Court’s refusal to grant a new trial on the ground of newly-discovered…