State v. Quigley

This case comes up on exceptions.

The respondent, then forty-five years of age, living with his wife in the City of Augusta, was tried and convicted of assault upon his wife with intent to kill and slay, he then being aimed with a dangerous weapon, a shotgun.

It is not denied that in the early evening of August 18,1937, respondent shot his wife, as she ran from their bedroom, several shot from the gun penetrating her lower back and one leg. One.earlier shot, discharged while both had hands on the gun, went through a wall-partition, and a third was fired through a window of the apartment. The…