State v. Hinchman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

Thé record in this case recites the proceedings whereby a mán was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty-five years for killing his wife in a conflict occasioned by the passion of each for the possession of their adopted child.

Domestic infelicity caused the husband and wife to separate. She went to live at her mother’s home and there kept and cherished the innocent cause of her death. On the morning of the fateful day the husband made an effort to obtain possession of the child, but failed, whereupon he procured from a justice…