State v. Belin

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Bonham :

Elizabeth Bealin was found dead in the home where she and her husband and their two small children resided in the Kingsburg section of Florence County, at about noon on Sunday, November 2, 1941, whereupon her husband, Monroe Bealin, the defendant, was charged with murder arising out of the death of his wife, and was tried upon that charge, to which he plead not guilty, at the January term, 1942, of the Court of General Sessions for that county.

Upon the trial, before the Honorable A. E. Gaston, presiding Judge, and a jury,…