Parker v. State

Bell, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Hubert Parker was indicted for the offense of murder in the killing of his wife, Mrs. Waldeen Parker, on May 13, 1943, by shooting her with a shotgun. His motion for a new trial as amended was overruled, and he excepted.

In the first special ground, it was contended that the court erred in admitting the following testimony of Mrs. Alton Parker: '“I said, ‘Waldeen/ I says, ‘How come Hubert to shoot you?’ and she said that Bernice and them told him a whole mess about her and Sid Parker and he shot her; she said she was in the kitchen…