Dunn v. People

At the November term, Í896, of the Pike circuit court an indictment was returned by the grand jury charging the plaintiff in error with the murder of one Alice Grimes. At the April term, 1897, of the said circuit court the cause was tried and the plaintiff in error adjudged to be guilty of the charge alleged in the indictment, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fourteen years. This is a writ of error brought to reverse the judgment of conviction.

The theory of the prosecution was that the said Alice Grimes became pregnant with child, and that the…