Dewey v. State

Plaintiff in error Dewey was convicted of murder in the second degree under an indictment charging murder in the first degree of his wife, Margaret Dewey.

Plaintiff in error and his mother were jointly indicted. The first trial resulted in a mistrial. On the second trial the mother was acquitted and Dewey convicted, as above stated.

The sole question presented is whether or not the evidence was legally sufficient to warrant the conviction.

The record shows that Margaret Dewey came to her death by a gun or pistol shot wound inflicted at close range; that the bullet entered her body at the left…