Holley v. State

Upon an indictment charging murder in the fii’st degree by fatally stabbing one Alberta Rogers, the plaintiff in error was convicted of manslaughter, and took writ of. error.

A physician testified that the death was caused by “a stab in her chest,” that “looked like a knife wound.”

It seems that the deceased and the defendant were interested in the same man, each perhaps claiming him as her husband, though he was probably the husband of the defendant.

One of the witnesses testified that he was standing near the deceased and that she ‘‘asked me if I had seen her husband, and I told her ‘no,’ and…