State v. Dornberg

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Bonham.

The appellant, Charles P. Dornberg, Jr., was charged with murder; the victim being his brother, John Dornberg. He was tried on this .charge, before Judge Grimball and a jury, at Greenwood, and convicted of manslaughter.

The evidence against him is almost wholly circumstantial. There is some proof of a note stating where the body of the deceased could be found, which the State charged was written by the accused and put in a mail box. The proof upon which the State relies in this particular is the testimony of men who compared the…