State v. Demming

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

H. E. Demming was prosecuted for killing Harry Chesser and convicted of murder in the second degree. The killing was admitted, the issue tried being self-defense. On appeal the principal contention made is that the verdict was not supported by the evidence. The case is peculiarly one in which a strong argument can be made for the defendant’s innocence, the homicide having grown out of a prolonged quarrel in which Chesser appears to have been the aggressor up to the time the shot was fired that killed him. But the question whether under all…