People v. John Willie Williams

The defendant John Willie Williams was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder.

The victim was his wife. They were married in 1964 and separated in 1967. A neighbor of the wife testified that two weeks before the homicide he overheard a heated argument between the defendant and his wife and heard the defendant threaten to kill her. On May 1, 1968, policemen were summoned to the wife’s home and discovered her body. Multiple stab wounds had been inflicted but the people charged that the immediate cause of death was a bludgeoning administered with the porcelain top of a toilet. A fingerprint…