Joiner v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Wanda Joiner, convicted of second degree murder in the killing of her husband and sentenced to forty years imprisonment, brings an appeal.

I

The State’s case is-based on the circumstance that Mrs. Joiner was present with her fatally wounded husband under circumstances negativing accident, suicide, or the agency of a third party.

On the night of July 2, 1974, Steve Joiner was in bed with his wife. Someone put Joiner’s shotgun close to his head and pulled the trigger.

The appellant told the Sheriff and police that two negro men came intb the bedroom muttering something about…