Whaley v. State

SEBRING, J.:

Under an indictment for the murder of his ex-wife, Nell Whaley, the appellant, William Tammie Whaley, was convicted of manslaughter. He has appealed from the judgment and has assigned as error the refusal of the trial court to grant a motion for new trial on the grounds of the insufficiency of the evidence and on other grounds set forth in the motion.

We shall first consider the sufficiency or insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. In the record is evidence that the married life of the Whaleys had been turbulent and stormy. Shortly prior to her decease Mrs. Whaley…