Turner v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

Walter Lee Turner was convicted in Richmond Superior Court of the murder of his father-in-law, Willie Houston, with a recommendation of mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The *533evidence discloses: that the defendant and his wife, the daughter of the deceased, rented and were living in a room in the home of the deceased; that, shortly before the homicide, the defendant and his wife were engaged in a quarrel during the progress of which the defendant struck his wife and she screamed; that the defendant’s mother-in-law came to their room, forcing the latch on the door,…