Sharp v. State

Error to the district court for Lancaster county, prosecuted by Frank E. Sharp, sentenced to death for the killing of his wife.

The case is here for the second time, a prior similar sentence having been reversed in Sharp v. State, 115 Neb. 737, because of errors not now before us.

The information charged Sharp with “unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, and of his deliberate and premeditated malice” killing Harriet A. Sharp.

Seven errors are assigned for the reversal of the judgment, summarized as follows: (1) Overruling defendant’s objection to swearing the jury, because of conscientious scruples…