Gosa v. State

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment whereby defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution.

The evidence tended to show that defendant killed his five-year-old daughter by stabbing her. Defendant and his wife had been divorced, remarried, and again divorced. They were living apart at the time of the homicide. Their two children, the deceased daughter and an eleven-year-old son, were living with the mother.

About 5 p..m., January 27, 1959, when it was beginning to get dark, defendant came to the front door of the mother’s house.…