Wallace v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and given five years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the State discloses that deceased was the husband of appellant, and was shot by her in the field where he was hoeing cotton. There had been a previous difficultjq a day or so prior to the homicide, between the parties, in which deceased was the aggressor. On the evening of the difficulty appellant borrowed a pistol from the witness "Vaughan, giving false reasons at the time for wanting said pistol. After obtaining it, she went to the place where her…