Milton v. State

Nichols, Chief Justice.

Freddie M. Milton appeals his conviction for the murder of his former wife, Marie Benjamin Milton. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. His only enumeration of error contends that the court erred in excluding on motion of the state his testimony and the testimony of one of his witnesses concerning four specific occasions upon which the deceased had attacked him with various weapons. This court reverses.

The deceased had returned from the laundromat and had blown the horn for her three children to help her remove the clothes from the automobile. Her children had come…