State v. Allison

In the Circuit Court of Dunklin County defendant was charged by information with murder in the first degree for the alleged killing in said county of his wife, Pearl Allison. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary and has appealed. The deceased was killed by the discharge of a shotgun fired in close proximity to her head. No one, unless it was defendant, witnessed the shooting. The theory of the State is that defendant fired the shot; that of the defense that Mrs. Allison committed suicide.

Mr. and Mrs. Allison, with their…