Koerner v. State

Appellant was convicted, and sentenced to .suffer death, upon a charge of having murdered- his wife. The contention here is that the evidence fails to show appellant to have been guilty, and especially of murder in the first -degree, and that the trial court erred in the instructions given, and in refusing those asked by appellant. In the first three *8instructions the court defined the nature of the charge against appellant, defined murder in the first and second degree, and manslaughter, and instructed the jury that the burden was upon the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt every…