Wadley v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Paskel N. Wadley, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in Case No. CRF-74-7 of the District Court, Pawnee County with the crime of Murder in the Second Degree in connection with the death of his wife. He was convicted after a trial by jury of the crime of Manslaughter in the First Degree and, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, was sentenced to serve a term of nineteen (19) years in the State penitentiary. He appeals.

At the time of Mrs. Wadley’s death, the Wadleys had been married less than a year. They lived in a trailer house in…