Burden v. State

Atkinson, Justice.

A married woman was lying asleep about dawn, in a bed near a glass window, between her two 'sisters, in the home of their mother. A shotgun was fired from without through the window. 'The load passed over .the woman nearest the window. Some of the shot entered the ear of the married woman while the main load penetrated the head of the woman farthest from the window, causing her death. The murdered woman resided in New York, but was at the home of her mother on a short visit, intending to return to her own home on the following day. The husband of the married woman, placed on…