State v. . Everett

The deceased, Nina Everett, was the wife of defendant, Eoy Everett. She died at their home in Cumberland County on Monday, 2 May, 1927. The State contended that her death was the result of a wound upon her head inflicted by defendant on Sunday night, 24 April, 1927, with a knife or some sharp instrument; that said wound became infected, because of neglect, and that this infection was taken into her circulatory system and carried thereby to her brain, causing cerebrospinal meningitis, which was the .direct and immediate cause of her death.

There was evidence tending to show that on Monday, 25…