Edwards v. People

Plaintiff in error, Gaylord Edwards, was found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree of one Floyd E. Harper. He was thereafter sentenced to a term of fifteen to twenty-five years in the State Penitentiary. From this judgment he seeks review by writ of error. We will refer to the plaintiff in error as the defendant or by name and to the defendant in error as the People.

The record discloses that Edwards and his wife, then Lucy Patton, were married approximately six months before the homicide. At the time of the marriage, Harper had been living in Mrs. Patton’s home for approximately a…