McWilliams v. State

The trial court declined to permit tlie defendant to show improper relations between the deceased and the said defendant’s wife prior to the homicide. Counsel rely on the case of Gafford v. State, 122 Ala. 54 25 South. 10, as an authority to the effect that the trial court ivas in error. The court did there hold that proof of an adulterous relation between the deceased and defendant’s sister ivas permissible; but, in defining the rule in said case, we think it justifies the exclusion of such evidence in the case at bar. Says the court: “If the question of self-defense were out of the case, it…