State v. Merrill

Miller, Judge:

Upon an indictment for the murder of an infant child, bom out of wedlock, by defendant, its grandmother, the jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and the judgment of conviction thereon was that she be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

The one question, presented in numerous ways, is, was the corpus delicti established justifying the verdict and judgment, which depended solely on circumstantial evidence?

The-mother of the child was defendant’s daughter, a girl of less than sixteen years. To establish the fact or body of the…