Murphy v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County for the murder of his wife. His trial resulted in a jury verdict finding him guilty as charged but disagreeing as to his punishment, and he was accordingly sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

The homicide occurred at the home of the appellant and the deceased on Saturday night at about eleven o’clock on March 2,1957. There was no one present in the home at the time other than the appellant and his wife. The appellant and the deceased lived in one side of a duplex apartment in the City of Pascagoula,…