Glab
People v. Glab
Opinion
Opinion
Gould, J.
Fatally wounded by a bullet which coursed through his right chest, .John Irving Glab was found lying in an alley at the rear of his residence and garage shortly after 9 o’clock upon the evening of June 18, 1928. He died the same night without recovering consciousness. By grand jury indictment returned more than seven years later, his wife, Hazel Belford Glab, defendant herein, detained at the time by police for questioning, was formally charged with the crime of murdering her husband. Upon trial the jury found her guilty of murder in the second degree and she was sentenced to prison for the term prescribed by law. She appeals from the judgment and from the order denying her motion for new trial.
Appellant’s claim that the evidence is insufficient to support the judg'ment is refuted by an examination of the record. Her threats to kill deceased and her angry arguments with him before his death; her statements thereafter that she had “killed one man and am about to kill another” ; the discovery of a secret hiding place for a gun in her automobile ; the at least partial identification of appellant as the woman seen running from the scene of the killing; expert testimony that the…