Gaddis v. State

Appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Itawamba County on an indictment charging him with the murder of one Noonan Lentz, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and appeals here.

The facts in the case are practically without dispute. The appellant and his wife had been having some family difficulties, the nature of which do not appear from this record, and on Monday night, previous to the killing on the following Thursday, July 1, 1948, Gaddis’ wife came to the home of the deceased and his wife and remained there until about sundown on the afternoon of Thursday,…