Smith v. State

Blume, Chief Justice.

Defendant was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals.

Some time in November, 1926, a human skeleton was found in about the SW^, Sec. 8, T. 26, R. 107, in the northern portion of Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Testi mony was introduced that it was that of one Rufino Urrutia, a. sheepherder, hereinafter called the deceased, who mysteriously disappeared about the middle of October, 1923.

The saddle of the deceased and his slicker and a scabbard tied thereto were soon after his disappearance found in his sheep camp, and showed, apparently, considerable traces of fresh blood.…