Stocking v. State

David M. Stocking was indicted for the murder of John Rose. The result of his trial was a verdict of murder in the first degree, and that he suffer death. Judgment of the Court accordingly. A motion for a new trial, interposed at the proper time, was overruled, exceptions taken, &c. The evidence is all made part of the record.

The indictment contains several counts, laying the mode of death in various ways. The substance of these counts it is unnecessary to state, as no question of variance arises in the record.

The history of the murder is briefly this. It appears that Stocking had meditated…