State v. Throndson

McKeNNA, District Judge.

Elmer Dczell was shot and killed by the defendant at the former’s farm residence in G-rand Forks county on the 28th day of December, 1919, and immediately following the shooting the defendant attempted sirieide. On the evening of the same day on which the killing of Dczell occurred the defendant signed a written confession, and signed a second written confession on the 29th day of December, 1919, both of which admit the shooting of Dezell and set forth in detail the reasons and causes leading up to the shooting and the siuTOunding circumstances. Both of these…