Dobry v. State

The plaintiff in error, who will be referred to herein as the defendant, was convicted in the district court for Colfax county of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. From, the overruling of his motion for a new trial, the defendant prosecutes error to this court.

The evidence in this case shows that the defendant was a farmer living about nine miles north of Schuyler. He was 70 years of age at the time in question and had lived on the farm by himself since his wife died six or seven years before. Adolph Dobry, a son of the defendant, lived *53across the…