Rowland v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the circuit court of Prentiss county. HoN. EugeNe O. Sykes, Judge. Rowland, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the Opinion of the court. This court has said, “If the defendant had caught the offender in the act of adultery with his wife, and had slain him on the spot, the crime would have been extenuated to manslaughter.
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FROM the circuit court of Prentiss county. HoN. EugeNe O. Sykes, Judge. Rowland, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the Opinion of the court. This court has said, “If the defendant had caught the offender in the act of adultery with his wife, and had slain him on the spot, the crime would have been extenuated to manslaughter. Such provocation being in legal contemplation sufficient to produce that brevis furor which for the moment unsettles reason.” Meed v. State, 82 Miss., 405. Under this decision, if the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tkuly, J.,,
delivered .the opinion of. the court,.; Appellant -was indicted for the, murder of his wife, Becky Rowland, sentenced to imprisonment for life, and appeals. . JLTis *485story is as follows: His wife bad been, for about two months prior to the homicide living with Lou Pate, at whose house the killing occurred. Appellant and his wife were on good terms, and he was in the habit of visiting her and staying one night with her.each week,.or every two weeks. Lou Pate’s house consisted of two rooms. In the front room were two beds — one occupied by Lou and her husband, and the other usually…
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