Maddox v. State

McG-oiwen, J.,

delivered, the opinion of the court.

Appellant was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Adams county on an indictment charging him with the murder of Lawrence Neece and was sentenced to be hanged. From that judgment he appeals here.

The facts necessary to state are that appellant’s sister, Florida, married Neece and to them a child was born, which at the time of the killing was about two years old. Later she secured a divorce from Nieece and married Matthieson, but a short time before this homicide occurred she had returned to Neece, without a divorce from Matthieson, and…