Scaife v. State

GbifstN Smith, Chief Justice.

December 17, 1943, appellant stabbed Ms wife and her mother — (Mrs. Susie Davis). Each died within a short time; Mrs. Davis in less than an hour, and Mrs. Scaife while being taken to a hospital at Helena. A jury, by some process of reasoning not required to be expressed, appears to have found that there were mitigating circumstances and that lethal use of a hunting knife amounted to murder in the second degree in respect of the charge that the defendant had “ ... unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, and after deliberation and…