Jones v. State

Walter Frederick Jones, convicted on August 2, 1943, in the Circuit Court for Howard County before a jury of murder in the first degree for killing his wife, Lena Jones, also known as Lena Taylor, on July 3, 1943, and as a result thereof sentenced to death, appeals to this court from the verdict, judgment and sentence. The case comes here on five exceptions to the ruling of the trial court on the evidence and on one exception to an instruction given by the trial court to the jury.

The first exception was taken after the assistant medical examiner testified as to the wound causing death and was…