State v. Butler

The only witness to the shooting was the daughter of the deceased woman, 'Mrs. Diane Godwin. Since a number of exceptions are taken to hér testimony we have summarized or quoted it rather fully. After testifying that when the defendant and Boots returned from the unsuccessful trip to get some money, Butler was mad, she then testified: “Ed was cussing at mama and calling her names. He called her a bitch and everything else; he said she didn’t have guts enough to fell him anything. That is all I remember him saying, just cussing at her and calling her names. At this time I was in my bedroom…