Wrye v. State

Atkinson, Justice.

The defendant, "Wrye, was indicted for the offense of murder. Hpon the trial, the evidence showed that as he was passing along near the place where the deceased was at work, the latter came out, advanced towards the accused, and as he reached him they became instantly engaged in an angry controversy, resulting in a personal conflict *35in which, the deceased was so severely stabbed that he died within a few days from the effects of the wounds inflicted. The wounds were inflicted with a knife, the size and character of which does not appear, nor does the description given of the…