Biggs v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment for the killing of his wife. The State's evidence established that on August 21, 1980, Patricia Lynn Biggs died of three .38 caliber gunshot wounds inflicted by her husband.

Appellant testified that he and the deceased were married in 1965, divorced in the summer of 1969, and remarried to each other in the fall of 1969. Since then, they had separated and reconciled on many occasions. Each separation was at his wife's insistence. In April 1980, appellant's wife informed him that she wanted a divorce and asked…