Flowers v. State

— Defendant appeals from a conviction of murder and a death sentence, and also from an order overruling his motion for a new trial. Upon his trial he admitted he committed the homicide, but claimed he did it in self-defense..

The deceased, the defendant, and all of the eyewitnesses to the killing are colored people; defendant and deceased being husband and wife. They were married in 1915 in Texas, and came to. Tucson, Arizona, in 1919. According to defendant’s story their married life had been neither happy nor peaceful. They had quarreled and fought, made up, and quarreled and fought again,…