Wilson v. State

GILLESPIE, Chief Justice:

Convicted in the Circuit Court of Ita-wamba County of murder, Thad Wilson appeals from the judgment sentencing him to life in prison.

The evidence for the State showed that defendant’s brother, Murden, and a friend, Strange, using a gun as a persuader, brought Jimmy Coats, Paulette Coats Wilson, estranged wife of defendant’s brother, and Bill Hardin, a friend of the Coats, to defendant’s home. Ill feelings had existed 'between the Coats and the Wilsons and Paulette’s children were at defendant’s house. When the five people arrived at defendant’s house in Strange’s…