Bridges v. State

Marshall, Justice.

Joseph Walter Bridges was convicted in the Pickens Superior Court of murdering Billy Franklin Ray. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals. We affirm.

The appellant Bridges is the husband of Billy Ray’s former wife. Bridges and his wife had custody of four minor children, who were the issue of the wife’s previous marriage to Ray. One of the children was being hospitalized at the Pickens County Hospital in July of 1977. Both Bridges and Ray were at the hospital, and they were quarreling about Bridges’ treatment of Ray’s children. There was an altercation between…