Stephens v. State

Clarke, Chief Justice.

Stephens was convicted of the murder of his common law wife and sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence showed that Stephens shot his estranged wife through the window of her trailer. She would not open the door to him when he went to investigate the report of a neighbor that she was with another man. At trial he said, “I don’t know what happened . . . the first thing that I knowed I had done shot her and I didn’t aim or nothing, I just shot.”

The enumerations of error concern the disqualification of a juror who said she was defendant’s cousin, the chain of custody…