State v. Schneider

The defendant was charged in the district court of Burleigh county, with the murder of bis wife, Amelia Schneider by the administration of poison. On his application the case was transferred to Barnes county, North Dakota, some 140 miles from the city of Bismarck. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying a new trial.

Defendant is about forty-five years of age, and had been previously married. An infant child, the issue of the first marriage survived. Defendant and Amelia married on December 5, 1921, after an…