People v. McNeer

Defendant was charged with the crime of murder. On a first trial he was convicted of second degree murder. He appealed and obtained a reversal. A second trial resulted in a conviction of murder in the first degree. The appeal is from said judgment.

Defendant and the deceased were husband and wife. About a week prior to the act charged in the information the decedent had been granted an interlocutory decree of divorce. On the night of June 27, 1934, defendant and decedent were found seated side by side in an automobile parked on the side of a road. Defendant was in the driver’s seat and…