Williams v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, the jury assessing his punishment at fifty years confinement in the penitentiary.

In making a statement of this case it is fairly correct to state that appellant’s wife, deceased, had conducted herself in such way as to show she had been unfaithful to her marital vows, and had been sufficiently indiscreet as to be guilty of illicit intercourse with other men. These matters brought trouble between appellant and his wife. It became sufficiently notorious for his landlord to request and appellant to comply with the request to…