Jenkins v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Eeror to the District Court, Laramie County; Hon. Carroee H. ParmeeEE, Judge. J. Warren Jenkins was convicted of murder in the first degree upon an informaiton charging that on the 14th day of April, A. D. 1912, at the County of Laramie, in the State of Wyoming, he did feloniously, purposely and with premeditated malice, kill and murder one Jessie Jenkins. The deceased was his wife. A motion for new trial was overruled and the defendant brought error.
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Eeror to the District Court, Laramie County; Hon. Carroee H. ParmeeEE, Judge. J. Warren Jenkins was convicted of murder in the first degree upon an informaiton charging that on the 14th day of April, A. D. 1912, at the County of Laramie, in the State of Wyoming, he did feloniously, purposely and with premeditated malice, kill and murder one Jessie Jenkins. The deceased was his wife. A motion for new trial was overruled and the defendant brought error. It was error to refuse to permit the defense on cross-examination of Dr. Beard, the coroner, to inquire whether upon reaching the scene of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff in error was charged, tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree. Motion for a new trial was *58made and overruled, judgment pronounced against him upon the verdict and he brings error.
1. The coroner testified as a witness on behalf of the state that on the evening of April 14, 1912, he was called to defendant’s dwelling house by the defendant, that being the scene of the homicide, the defendant saying that his wife was dead. The following question was propounded to him on cross-examination, viz: “Did you ask Mr. Jenkins (the defendant) that night…
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