People v. Owens

Defendant was informed against for the murder of his wife. He was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, the jury fixing the penalty of death. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and, being sentenced, he *484prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial. The story in reference to the commission of the crime is told by his daughter, Mrs. Tiedeman, who was the only witness of the murder excepting the defendant. She says: “George C. Owens is my father. I had been married about two months. My mother, Ruth E. Owens, had been…