State v. . Creech

Criminal prosecution on indictment charging the defendant with the murder of his wife, Mattie Creech.

The record discloses that on 28 July, 1948, around the hour of midnight, the defendant shot and killed his wife with a double-barrel shotgun in the home of a neighbor, where she had gone and was staying temporarily as a result of a quarrel with the defendant on the 16th of the same month. The scene of the homicide was in the Brogden section of Johnston County about a quarter of a mile from the defendant's home.

The August Term of Johnston Superior Court convened on 16 August, 1948, and the…