McGhee v. Banks

Hall, Judge.

The issue on this appeal is whether the estate of a testator, upon her homicide by her husband whom she had named the beneficiary of her entire estate, is payable to her heirs at law other than her husband, or to the husband’s daughter (the testator’s step-daughter), who would be his heir at law upon his death. The 'following statute must be applied: “The right of inheritance is hereby denied any person who shall, with malice aforethought, kill any other person for the purpose of inheriting the property of the person so killed, or who shall conspire with another to kill or who…