State v. Netherton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree, where the proof consisted entirely of circumstantial evidence. ' The defendant is a physician, fifty-nine years of age, who had acquired prominence in the vicinity where he had resided for many years and was connected with a number of organizations. He was charged with having killed his wife, who was much younger than he and possessed of quite an inheritance from her mother, lately deceased. He reported to the sheriff about noon on February 24, 1928, that he had found his…