Wright v. State

PIARWOOD, Justice.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree, this appellant’s trial resulted in a verdict of murder in the second degree and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for thirty years.

The victim of the homicide was the appellant’s wife.

The evidence introduced by the state in the trial below tends to show that the appellant and his late wife had been married about two and a half years. At the time of the killing they were living in a cottage at Camp Mac in Talladega County.'

On Thanksgiving Eve 1965, the appellant and his wife had invited Mr. and…