State v. Epes

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne

delivered the majority opinion of the Court.

Under, an indictment charging him with the murder of his wife, Mary Lee Epes, on January 28, 1945, by administering to her sodium seconal, a deadly poison, the appellant was put upon his trial in the court of general sessions for Richland County in September, 1945, and by a verdict of the jury was found guilty of murder, with recommendation to mercy. His punishment was fixed under the law at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life.

From the judgment of that court and from the order denying his motion for a…