People v. Holmes

The respondent was convicted of murder in the first degree. A brief statement of the circumstances of the tragedy is as follows: Respondent and the deceased, Albert Johnson, were both boarders at the boarding house of Mrs. Posner, in the city of Grand' Rapids. Both were about the age of 27 years at the time *366of the tragedy. The deceased was a powerful man, weighing about 220 pounds, and respondent is rather frail and delicate, of a nervous temperament, and weighed, at the time of the tragedy, about 128 pounds. On the 12th of January, 1896, which was Sunday, Holmes sat in the sitting room of…