State v. McAnarney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, O. J.:

About three o’clock of the afternoon of July 25, 1908, the dead body of James Mc-Anarney was found in a well by his son, George McAnarney. At the conclusion of a coroner’s inquest George was accused of feloniously killing his father with a tin can, and the result of a second trial was his conviction of murder in the second degree. There was no direct testimony connecting the defendant with the death of his father, and it is earnestly contended that the circumstantial evidence produced was not such as to warrant the court in submitting…