State v. Eldredge

RiNeb, Justice.

Jennings Eldredge, who brings this case here by direct appeal, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by the verdict of a jury in the District Court of Hot Springs County and a judgment was entered thereon sentencing him to serve a term of from 30 to 50 years in the state penitentiary.

Briefly, the circumstances of the homicide may be stated in outline as follows: On the night of October 5th, 1931, two men, named William Carlson and Ernest Bloom, left their boarding house at Gebo, Wyoming, and went to a house about a quarter mile west of Kirby, in the county aforesaid,…