Adams v. State

Ingram, Justice.

Appellant was tried and convicted by a jury in Fulton Superior Court of the offense of murder and received a sentence of life imprisonment. His amended motion for new trial was overruled in the trial court and he appeals to this court for a reversal of his conviction.

According to appellant’s testimony, the victim of the homicide was appellant’s common law wife. They were living together in an apartment on Wadley Street in Atlanta when appellant came home one evening around 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. and could not get in the apartment until the victim’s daughter, from another marriage,…