Dewberry v. State

The appellant, Russell Dewberry, was indicted and convicted on a charge of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal. The appellant killed his wife, Carrie, on the Blake place in Warren county, Mississippi, shooting her with a shotgun, the load penetrating her left ear, with some scattering shots in her nose, cheek, and head.

The evidence shows that} on the morning of the killing, Carrie, the appellant’s wife, left home, going in the direction of Vicksburg, and a little later appellant was seen to go in the same direction riding a horse. In a few…