Gregory v. State

The appellant, H. C. Gregory, was indicted and tried in the circuit court of Clarke county for the murder of his wife, and was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years; and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

About six o’clock in the evening on December 28, 1927, the wife of appellant was shot with a pistol. The bullet took effect in the upper part of her chest near the heart, and she died from the effect of the wound about twenty-four hours later. She was in her home at the time she was shot; and her husband, the appellant, and their…