State v. Hollywood

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree entered upon a jury verdict and from an order denying a new trial. The defendant received a sentence of life imprisonment.

The defendant was informed against in Gallatin County and charged with murdering one Sylvia Dudley by shooting her with a firearm.

The defendant is a man, 32 years of age. The deceased Sylvia Dudley was 43. For several years, prior to April 1959, the defendant and the deceased lived together, separating ,at times because of spats caused by drinking bouts by the defendant. The deceased had not been…