King v. State

John King was indicted by a grand jury of the Pulaski circuit court for murder in the first degree, committed by unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, with malice aforethought and with deliberation and premeditation, killing and murdering William Davenport with an ax; and he pleaded not guilty, and was tried and convicted of the degree of homicide charged against him, and was sentenced to be hung.

In the trial of the defendant the wife of deceased testified, substantially, as follows: Her husband died on the 6th of February, 1900. The defendant was at her house on that day and the day before. Her…