State v. Hurley

At a Court of Oyer and Terminer held this term, Clement Hurley was indicted and tried for the murder in the first degree of Elizabeth Hurley, his wife. In consequence of his extreme intemperance and cruel treatment of her when intoxicated, she had temporarily separated from him, and being at the house of a son of hers by a former husband, on Friday preceding her death, he went to see her and asked her when she was coming home, to which she replied, when the weather got better, and on the following Monday before her death he went to see her again and made the same inquiry of her and then said…