Jeffcoat v. State

Gray, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was indicted on the 28th day of October, 1930, for the murder of his wife, Fannie Jeff coat, and Oscar Jeffcoat, T. Hatfield and Mary Jane Hall were indicted as accessories after the fact. A severance was granted and the defendant, Elvin E. Jeffcoat, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death,' to which judgment the defendant takes writ of error.

It appears from the evidence that on October 14, 1930, at about 11 o’clock at night, the deceased, Fannie Jeff-coat, was found lying on a road in…