State v. Greenlee

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

Indicted for murder in the first degree, appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the killing of S. A. Shepherd.

Appellant, aged 30, had come from Oklahoma a few months prior tot the homicide, and was engaged in highway construction near Plagerman. On March 20, 1926, he married a girl 19 years of age. As his work near Hagerman was nearly completed, and as he intended, after its completion, to go back to Oklahoma, taking his wife with him, appellant and his wife, after the marriage, maintained their residence with the wife’s parents. Appellant’s wife…