Flowers v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

This is an appeal under the statutes providing for an automatic appeal from a death sentence, Code 1940, Tit. 15, § 382(1) et seq.

Appellant was indicted and convicted for killing his wife, Dorothy. Appellant and Dorothy lived two doors from Clara McIntosh. The State’s evidence showed that appellant had given Dorothy a physical beating in the front door of their house and Clara had prevailed upon him to desist and Dorothy had come over to Clara’s house for treatment of her wounds. Appellant came to Clara’s house a few minutes later, left, and subsequently returned and began to…