Higdon v. State

The defendant killed Jess Wimberly by' shooting him with a pistol. The difficulty occurred at or near the back door of the Wimberly dwelling at about 7:30 o’clock at night. Some thirty or forty minutes before the shooting there had been a row between defendant’s wife and mother on the one side and Wimberly’s wife on the other, in the back yard of the Wimberly dwelling, and when Mrs. Higdon got home she told defendant about it. Armed with a pistol, defendant went immediately to the home of Wimberly, knocked on the back door, and, when it was opened either by Wimberly or his wife, asked for…