State v. Cooper

At the February term, 1879, of the Newton circuit court, the defendant was indicted for the murder of William Grimes. A trial at the August term, 1879, resulted in his conviction of murder of the second degree, and from the judgment against him, defendant has appealed.

The evidence disclosed the following facts:-that the deceased and the defendant were brothers-in-law, the latter having married a sister of the former, and that they had a misunderstanding in relation to a stock field.

Isaac Grimes, father of defendant’s wife, testified that on the 1st day of November, 1878, Cooper came to his…