Wallace v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This'appellant’s trial upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree resulted in a verdict and judgment of guilty of murder in the second degree, punishment being fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

The deceased was the wife of the appellant, the marriage having taken place three years prior to the shooting.

For some time their married life had been marred by quarrels, threats, and altercations. The appellant testified that his wife had shot at him on prior occasions, and also that he had not too long before the shooting “slapped hell” out of his wife.-…