State v. . Stafford

The evidence on behalf of the State tends to show that in the early afternoon of 4 April, 1932, the prisoner shot and killed his wife under circumstances indicative of a mind fatally bent on mischief and a heart devoid of social duties. The deceased left her sick bed, in her mother’s home, bare-footed, dressed only in her night clothes, and fled for her life a distance of about 580 yards down the hill to a spring and there hid herself in a ditch. The prisoner in pursuit, discovering her here in hiding, commanded her to come out of the ditch, which she did, falling at his feet and pleading…