Spears v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful killing of Robert L. Wallace and given a term of 15 years in the state penitentiary.

The facts show that appellant and his wife, Lorene Spears, had been divorced on August 25, 1947, and the custody of their six-year old child had been awarded the wife; that on October 12, 1947, in the nighttime, the deceased was in the home occupied by Mrs. Lorene Spears, and evidently seated therein, when some one shot him with a large caliber pistol, the bullet going in at an angle into his right eye and ranging through the head at an angle of about 30…