State v. Alexander

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Waoheneeld, J.

This is an appeal in a homicide case In which the defendant was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 18 to 25 years.

The State charges the defendant stabbed the deceased, Daisy Thomas, through the heart with a bread knife and then ■pushed her through a plate glass window, while the defense contends the death of the deceased was caused not by a knife but by a large piece of plate glass which entered her heart -when she went through the broken window pane.

Self-defense was also relied upon, it being asserted the deceased cut the…