State v. Hartley

By information charging him with murder in the first degree, defendant, Earl Victor Bruce Hartley, was- accused of killing his wife, Ida Hartley, in the manner set forth in the charge as follows: .

“He, the said Earl Victor Bruce Hartley, in the County of King, State of Washington, on or about the 11th day of August, 1945, with premeditated design to effect the death of Ida Hartley, a human being, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously did then and there cut, slash, and wound the said Ida Hartley, with a knife then and theré held by him, the said Earl Victor Bruce Hartley, thereby mortally…