Kozlowski v. State

The appellant James Zigsmund Kozlowski was tried on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree of his wife Willodeen Kozlowski. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years.

Kozlowski spent his early life in New Jersey. After completing the eighth grade in school he led a peripatetic existence, working on a farm for his keep, in a sawmill, and in a snuff mill. In 1937 or 1938 he enlisted in the United States Army, and was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. Through a fellow soldier he…