People v. . Lewis

Lehman, J.:

Prior to September, 1922, the defendant occupied an apartment with Louisa Lewis who had lived with him for ten years as his wife. Her mother and sister lived with him in the same apartment. On the evening of September 10, 1922, Mrs. Lewis and her sister went to a moving picture theatre leaving their mother, Katherine Weiland, who was eighty-six years of age, alone in the apartment. When they returned from the theatre they found that their mother had, during their absence, sustained injuries, consisting of a wound above the left eye, a fracture of the left hip and various contusions…