Coppenhaver v. State

Appellant was convicted in the above entitled cause of murder in the first degree, and it was adjudged that he suffer death. In addition to the plea of not guilty, appellant filed a special plea of insanity. To the latter plea the prosecutor replied by a general denial.

The person whom appellant was convicted of murdering was his wife. At the time of the killing, September 9, 1902, they were living apart, — as she had been compelled to leave him,' — and she had taken up her residence with her mother. On the day aforesaid, appellant called upon his wife at her mother’s home. After a brief…