Harris v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, whom we will call defendant, is asking for the reversal of a judgment imposing upon him the death penalty for the murder of his wife. This woman was killed on the evening of April 29,1925. Two women living in a neighboring house testified that the last they saw of this woman alive was a little before sundown. She was getting a bucket of coal. The defendant came home, walked up to the porch, and she said to him, “Where have you been all the evening?” He didn’t make any answer, and he and his wife went into the house. A short…