State v. Smith

The Opinion of the Court was delivered by

Circuit Judge E. H. Henderson, Acting Associate Justice:

The defendant, Hugh G. Smith, was charged with the murder of his wife, Mary Smith, and was tried at the fall, 1941, term of the Court of General Sessions for Marion County. He was convicted of manslaughter, and was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment.

He lived about two miles from the Town of Marion, and in a neighboring house, about one hundred yards away, Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Hinson resided.

A short time before the killing, the defendant and his wife had become estranged, and she had moved to…