Shaw v. State

Warner, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the offense of murder and charged with having killed his wife in the county of Baldwin. On the trial of the case, the jury, under the evidence and' charge of the court, found the defendant guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds therein set forth, which was overruled by the court, and the defendant excepted.

It appears from the evidence in the record, that the deceased was found dead at the defendant’s house on the morning of the 30th of April, 1877, shot in the head with a pistol ball, had several gashes on the left…