Jackson v. State

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

1. There is no law of this State, or of any other State or country of which we have ever heard, which will justify a husband in going into a field where a man is at work and killing him because he has committed adultery with the slayer’s wife. To do such an act is murder absolute and unqualified. It is taking the law in one’s own hands and punishing a man with death for a past transgression. This is contrary to all principle of law and the administration of law. Under the facts of this case there was no necessity for the killing to prevent a future act of adultery…