Tranholm v. State

*58PRICE, Judge.

The indictment charges murder in the first degree for the killing of defendant’s wife, Emma Mae Tranholm. In addition to the general issue, the special plea of insanity was interposed. Trial resulted in conviction of murder in the second degree and a sentence of eighteen years imprisonment.

The evidence tends to show that defendant’s wife had left him and was staying with her mother. On the day of the killing defendant went to see his wife to try to persuade her to come home. She promised to return the following Saturday, but at defendant’s request she agreed to go with him for a…