Copeland v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

The defendant, Lloyd Copeland, age forty-two, killed Lottie Copeland, thirty-four, his long-time mistress and one-time wife, by shooting her five times with a .38 caliber revolver. The only propositions meriting treatment are those advanced in argument and they are such that it will be unnecessary to burden this opinion with a recital of the facts detailing the clandestine concubinage of these two unfortunate parties during their sixteen years of relationship, or to notice the several marriages which defendant undertook, one with Lottie herself, all the while maintaining more…