Puryear v. State

Mu.. Justice Cook

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error was charged by indictment with killing his wife. Upon the first trial, the jury disagreed. Upon a second trial, he was convicted of murder in the second degree, and on appeal the judgment was reversed. Upon the third and last trial, the jury convicted of murder in the second degree and assessed the maximum punishment at imprisonment for twenty years.

Defendant appealed and filed a bill of exceptions upon which errors have been assigned, but the State has moved to strike the bill of exceptions. The motion to strike is…