Welch v. State

The indictment charged Lawrence Welch with murder for the killing of Luch [Lucy?] Welch by shooting her with a gun and by striking and beating her with a gun and with some instrument of a description unknown to the grand jurors. The uncontradicted evidence showed that the deceased was wife of the defendant and sister of the wife of Shedrick Sheppard, and that the homicide occurred on Monday night after dark at the dwelling of Sheppard, where Lucy, the deceased, intended to spend the night. Sheppard as witness for the State testiffed, in part, as follows: “Lawrence Welch came to our house . .…