Welch v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal from a second degree murder conviction carrying a twelve year penitentiary sentence was originally assigned to our Presiding Judge.

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September 7, 1968, appellant fired a. shotgun at his wife. The shot hit the lower thigh of her right leg. The surgeon to whom she was sent gave her no drug to offset blood coagulation, according to the State’s, witness, Dr. Jack Dozier.

November -13, 1968 she died. ' A-blood clot •had formed’ in her ’léft leg. Cause of death was the clot’s lodging in hér'lung.- • •

We quote, in part, from the State’s examination of Dr. Dozier on redirect:

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