Sims v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant received the death penalty for the murder of his wife. The State’s case substantially is that appellant, on the evening of the homicide, secured a shotgun and went to the point where he expected to meet his wife and awaited her coming. When she arrived he demanded of her certain title deeds to lands owned by them as community property. She declined to give him the deeds and he shot and killed her. They had not been living together for some time. The immediate facts are not controverted, as we understand the transcript.

The issue presented by appellant was…