Febre v. State

CHILLINGWORTH, Associate Justice:

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, with recommendation to mercy.

The story is old. The details are different. About midnight one Saturday, the defendant returned to the home in which he and his wife had lived together until a month before. He knocked on the door. A man’s voice answered. “Who is there?” The defendant, using his own key to enter the front door, walked into the living room. As he did so his wife, scantily clad, appeared in a doorway, just a few feet away, and to his immediate right, which doorway separated the living room…