People v. Bowen

The respondent and his wife were young married people. There was testimony tending to show that they were living apart; she doing laundry or housework for hire, and he working at other places. It is inferable from the testimony that he was, and perhaps had cause to be, jealous and suspicious of her relations with at least two other men. A while before the homicide, Vera, his wife, came to the residence of Ezra Brower, whose wife was her relative, and later she went to her mother’s home. Respondent went there to visit her on or shortly before October 30th, and on the 31st, the day of her…