Warren v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

The appellant, Archie Warren, his wife Pearl, Lillie May Leatherwood, sister-in-law, and Pearlee Leatherwood, mother of the two women, lived together in Pearl ee’s house on a farm in Lowndes County. Late on a Sunday afternoon in early May of 1945 the appellant and Lillie May Leather-wood began an argument, and appellant’s wife , Pearl, apparently in an effort to break up the quarrel, sent appellant out for stove wood.

When appellant returned, Pearl and Pearlee were in one room and Lillie May was in an adjoining room. They heard a sound of wood being dropped on the porch and…