State v. Cook

— The appellant was charged with having murdered his wife, and he appeals from a judgment based on the jury’s verdict finding him guilty of murder in the second degree.

(lj The first error assigned is the admission in evidence of an information against the appellant as a jointist. This was properly admitted for the purpose of proving appellant’s malice against his wife and motive for killing her, her name being endorsed on the information as a state’s witness; she at the time being a competent witness against him, they being then divorced.(2) The bond furnished by the appellant on the jointist…