Barnett v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

A wife and mother is dead at twenty-nine, having been shot three times with a twenty-two caliber pistol. The husband and father received a life sentence for murder at the age of thirty-seven. He lives with a bullet embedded in his brain.

Appellant, Clifton Wayne Barnett, and Betty Jane Shaw were intermarried in the late 1950s. To this union were born two girls, Vicki Jane and Mary Jo, who were twelve and ten years of age, respectively, at the time of their mother’s death on October 10, 1969. A long time ago someone said that well placed domestic affection grows brighter day by…