People v. Marble

This is 'a case on exceptions certified before judgment. The defendant and one William Martin were charged as being present and aiding and abetting one Willard H. Chapman in the murder of Charles P. Ayres. The offense was laid November 12, 1876, at the town of Meridian, in Ingham county. July, 1877, she was tried separately and the jury convicted her of murder in the second degree.

The witness first offered by the people was John P. Marble. At the time of the homicide he was defendant’s husband, but living separate from her and carrying on proceedings against her for a divorce from the bonds…