Schmidt v. State

The information in this case charged the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, with murder in the first degree of one George Kramer. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree and judgment was entered accordingly. The case is here on writ of error.

The evidence shows that the defendant set a gun in his orchard loaded with powder and No. 3 shot, cocked, with a wire attached to the trigger of the gun, running back over a spool and then extending along in range with the barrel of the gun and for some distance in front of the muzzle and about eight inches from…