State v. Roselair
Oregon Supreme Court
From Washington: James U. Campbell, Judge. The defendant, John D. Roselair, was tried and convicted of the crime of having killed his wife, and the jury having found him guilty of murder in the first degree, he appeals from the judgment and sentence following such conviction.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
1. The defendant, John D. Roselair, was convicted of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed May 15, 1909, by killing his wife; and he appeals from the resulting judgment. He made a written confession which states in effect that on the day of the homicide he requested the deceased to give him some milk for his breakfast; that complying, she poured some milk from a pan into a bowl for him, but retained the cream with a spoon; that he chided her for giving him such inferior food, whereupon she made an angry reply and threw the contents of the…
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