Munshower v. State

The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of James L. Wetsell, and the jury, by their verdict, found him guilty of murder in the first degree. At the trial, his counsel took three exceptions to the rulings of the Court upon questions of evidence, which this appeal brings up for review, and we shall dispose of them in their order.

First Exception. The State proved that early on Tuesday morning, the 5th of August, 1819, Wetsell left the house of Knode, where he was making his home, and proceeded up the public road towards Emmittshurg. On the Sunday following, Wetsell not having made…