Ward v. State

Under an indictment which charged this appellant with murder in the first degree, he was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 20 years.

Henry Ward, appellant, killed his wife, Elizabeth Ward, by shooting her in the breast with a pistol. The facts as to this were admitted' and without dispute. The defendant insisted that the shooting was accidental, and that the death of his wife resulted from the accidental discharge of his Luger automatic pistol, which he was^ cleaning at the time of the firing of…