Bell v. United States

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Cardoza Bell, defendant below, was indicted and tried for murder in the first degree, charged with unlawfully killing one Alice Metz. He was found guilty as indicted, and was sentenced to death. He has appealed from that judgment.

The present record contains the testimony introduced at the trial, and in order to pass upon the assignments of error it is necessary to set out the salient facts thereby disclosed.

It convincingly appears from the evidence that the defendant and the deceased had been living with each other as man and wife for a period of thirteen…