Lee v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

As to what happened at the scene of the shooting, the state offered the testimony of only one witness, a negro woman at whose house the killing occurred. This witness testified that the defendant’s wife was visiting in her room, and while she was there the deceased, Dan Jordan, also came in; that the deceased remained in the room for quite a while in conversation with these women; that while he was standing before a heater with his overcoat on his…