Gunn v. State

The defendant was indicted on a charge of' murder in the first degree, in that she killed her husband, Wm. Gunn, by shooting him. with a pistol. The evidence tended to prove-that, while the defendant and her husband, Wm. Gunn, were riding in a closed car, about 8 o’clock at night, on the road leading from their house to Oxford, Ala., and at a point within a short distance of a certain bridge, the deceased was shot one time with a 32-20-Smith & Wesson pistol, the shot being at close range, entering the left breast about two inches above the nipple, ranging slightly downward through the body,…