Leggette v. Smith

Legge, Justice.

On May 9, 1951, Edna N. Smith was shot and killed by her husband, Earl L. Smith. This action was brought by Henry Legette, Jr., her son by a former marriage, and Worthie Newell, as administrator of her estate, the complaint alleging that the homicide was unlawful, wrongful, intentional, felonious and malicious; that she had died intestate, survived by her said son and her said husband; that in consequence of the unlawful homicide, whether murder or voluntary manslaughter, her husband was debarred of inheritance from her, and therefore all of her estate, after payment of debts…