State v. Schneider

Defendant was, by information, charged with the crime of murder in the first degree committed upon the person of his wife, Eva M., or Betty, Schneider, whom he assaulted on March 31, 1929, striking and cutting her with a heavy meat axe or cleaver, inflicting upon her wounds from which she died within a few hours. To the information, defendant pleaded not guilty, filing also a special plea in which he alleged that, at the time of the alleged commission of the crime charged, he was “insane and mentally irresponsible.” On the trial, defendant did not deny that he had made the assault upon his…