State v. Gummer

Statement of facts.

Pjbr Curiam.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree. He has appealed from the judgment of conviction and an order denying a new trial. The record is voluminous. The facts necessary to be stated are as follows: In June, 1921, Marie Wick was a strong, healthy, good-looking, unmarried, and virtuous girl of eighteen years, living at Grygla, Minn., a small inland town about 100 miles north of Fargo, N. L>.; she was steady and industrious; she possessed an ordinary education, supplemented by a business course had in a college at Warren, a :mall town not far…