State v. Crawford

Mr. Special Justice Erby L. Jenkins

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant below was tried in the Washington County Criminal Court in February of 1969 for the alleged murder of his wife, Jo Anne Crawford. He was convicted by a jury of the offense of second degree murder and his punishment was fixed at fifteen years in the State Penitentiary. Motion for a new trial was overruled by the trial judge, and the defendant appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, which court in a split decision reversed and remanded the matter, and this Court granted certiorari.

The State’s case is made out…