West v. State

On Wednesday night, April 16, 1952, the appellant, Herman Lee West, a 31-year-old tenant share-cropper-in Sunflower County, killed his wife, Mrs. Gene West, who was 21 years of age, carried the body some distance from their residence and left it in a weed patch until he could return to the house and get a shovel to dig a hole in an attempt to conceal the crime. The body was not found until on the following Monday when he pointed out to the officers and others its whereabouts in the weed patch, covered with about six inches of earth. At the September term of court thereafter he was convicted…