State v. Landrum

This is an appeal on questions of law from a verdict of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation of mercy, by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas.

It appears from the evidence that Ethel Landrum, defendant, married William Landrum in 1940. He was a big man and a good worker with a habit of becoming intoxicated almost every week-end, at which time he would beat up, abuse and mistreat his wife shamefully. Seven witnesses took the witness stand to describe his outrageous conduct during their married life until his death on Sunday, August 10, 1952.

It appears that William Landrum was out…