Ray v. State

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

Grover Cleveland Ray was indicted and tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, Bessemer Division, for the murder of his wife, Mildred Juanita Ray. The indictment under which he was tried contained three counts. Omitting formal parts, count 1 charged that Ray killed his wife by beating her with a blunt weapon, a better description of which is unknown to the Grand Jury: count 2 charged that he killed her 'by beating her with his fists, and count 3, that he killed her by beating her with some deadly instrument or weapon, a better description of which is…