Fudge v. State

Simmons, Circuit Judge.'

The plaintiff in error was indicted and tried in the court below for the murder of his two little girls, Ethel, and Tennie, aged seven and ten years, respectively. The trial resulted, in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first, degree with a recommendation of mercy.

There are numerous assignments of error, the great majority of which are abandoned here, and as to those remaining which are predicated upon rulings of the trial court we find no reversible error. The principal contention of the plaintiff in error is that his conviction is not sustained by the evidence.

The…