Collins v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The indictment in this case charged the appellant with the offense of murder in the first degree, in that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought, killed Earf Collins by shooting her with a pistol. In the second count by stabbing her with a knife. The trial resulted in his conviction of murder in the second degree and the jury fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty years.

The evidence disclosed that Earl Collins, the deceased named in the indictment, was the divorced wife of the defendant. That they had married and lived together as man…