Baugh v. State

The appellant, Bob Baugh, was indicted for the murder of his wife, Trussie Baugh, and on his trial under this indictment was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The evidence shows, without dispute, that Trussie Baugh, the person alleged to have been killed, died as the result of a gunshot wound that entered from the back through the binding on the collar of Ser dress, the bullet ’ passing through the body, making its exit in the center of the breast about two inches below the top of the sternum. The evidence for the state tended to show that the…