Pliemling v. State

This is an information for murder in the first degree, with five counts, stated in common-law form; the first count of which charges the murder of one Laura Yan Yoor-hees, the mother; the second of Edward, her son; the third of Stella, her daughter; the fourth, of Claudia, her female babe; and the fifth, the murder of all four together.

The verdict of the jury was, guilty of murder in the third degree, under the fifth count of the information.

The facts in brief were as follows: In the evening of the first day of November, 1877, the small house in which the Yan Yoorhees family lived, was…