State v. Cade

The appeal is from a conviction, January 28, 1930, of murder in the first degree, and sentence to life imprisonment. The defendant was charged with murdering one Kenneth Hermann, December 31, 1929.

Defendant Cade at the time was'forty-one years old. A few years before the incident he had married Nina Hermann, who had three children: Carl, nineteen years old; Kenneth, seventeen, and Albert, twelve. The defendant’s father, eighty years of age, lived with the family at the time of the homicide.

On December 31, 1929, Kenneth Hermann was not well, ate no breakfast and did not go to school. Carl went…