Drake v. State

Blandford, Justice.

The plaintiff in error was indicted and found guilty of the murder of his wife, in the superior court of Upson county. *414The evidence showed that the accused and deceased were at home the night previous to the homicide; that they had a quarrel; the next morning the accused was seen leaving the house by jumping outof a window; very soon thereafter there was the smell of clothes burning; several parties went to the house, burst open the door, and discovered the deceased lying in the fire badly burned, her head mashed in, skull broken and her throat cut. She was dead. A pair of…