Lancaster v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Lafayette County of the murder of his wife, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. From that judgment, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The main questions in the case are: whether the search of appellant’s premises was legal or not, and if illegal, whether, or not the testimony of Miss Moore, a material witness for the State, was thereby rendered incompetent.

Appellant and his wife resided alone in her home in Lafayette Springs, a small village in Lafayette County. He was around sixty-two years of age and…