"This summary follows for the greater part the briefs for the appeal by Edwin V. MacKenzie, though some additional material and analysis are introduced." "On the morning of May 30, 1933, Allene Thorpe Lamson, the wife of David Lamson, was found dead in the bath-tub of the Lamson home, with a wound in the back of her head ... Lamson at the present time stands convicted of the murder of his wife."-p.27.