Pettit v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Montgomery Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHackney, J.
The appellant was charged by indictment, in the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, with the murder of his wife, Hattie E. Pettit, by administering to her quantities of strychnine.
The venue of said cause was changed to the circuit court of Montgomery county, where, on the 20th day of November, 1890, after a trial occupying six weeks, he was convicted and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. He appeals to this court from the judgment of the lower court, and many questions are presented for review.
We are asked to pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant a conviction, and we have…
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