Nelson v. State

Harvey Nelson was indicted for the murder of his wife. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and he excepted to the overruling of his motion for new trial. The indictment charged that the defendant “did kill and murder by striking, hitting, beating, and wounding the said Mrs. Harvey Nelson with his fists and with a blunt instrument to the grand jury unknown, which the said Harvey Nelson then and there held and giving to the said Mrs. Harvey Nelson then and there a mortal wound of which mortal wound the said Mrs. Harvey Nelson *245died.” In another count the indictment further charged that…