Weaver v. Hollis

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

On May 21, 1943, Comer Weaver, the appellant, was convicted of mu'rder in the second degree for killing his wife, Margaret Walker Weaver. He was sentenced to serve a term of fifty years in the State penitentiary, and is now serving .that sentence. Margaret Walker Weaver left surviving her the appellant, her husband, and one brother, Richard Herron Walker. She died intestate, and at her death had a separate estate consisting of real estate and personal property.

The sole question presented is whether the husband, who feloniously killed his wife, can share in the estate owned…