State v. Smith

Stukes, Justice.

Appellant, a Greenwood textile worker, has appealed from his conviction and life sentence for the poison murder of Hazel Arnold Smith, his bride of less than two months. He was previously married and very recently divorced, of which latter his first wife denied knowledge although she was separated from appellant and cooperated in the .commencement of a divorce action. She gave damaging testimony against him which will be included in substance in the later summary of the State’s evidence.

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