Page v. State

Lée, J.

The appellant, John Davis Page, was convicted of the murder of his wife, Annie Bell Page, the jury fixing his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Prom a judgment in accordance with the verdict of the jury, he appeals.

Page lived with his wife several miles from DeKalb. Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon on Christmas Day, 1948, he went to the office of Dr. Y. M. Creekmore in the town of DeKalb to get the doctor to 'attend his wife, explaining that she had fallen on the doorsteps and cut a place on the front part of her head. The doctor smélled a strong…