Johnson v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

This is an appeal, from the District Court of Upshur County in which appellant was given a sentence of fifty years in the penitentiary for murder, the victim being his wife.

The appellant, a negro, lived in a saw-mill community in the rural district of Upshur County. According to the written confession made by the appellant and introduced in evidence, he and his wife had had trouble for several years. Their immediate difficulty was because of the fact that the deceased had become infatuated with another man living across the line in Harrison County some distance away. He found…