Emmett v. State

Hall, Justice.

Emmett appeals his July, 1978 conviction and life sentence for the 1973 murder of his wife.

Emmett worked the 4:00 p.m. to midnight shift at a mill, and lived with Wynelle, his wife of 12 years, and their young son Michael. The state’s evidence tended to show that on the night of August 20-21,1973, Mrs. Ayers, Wynelle’s half-sister, received three telephone calls from Emmett, beginning at approximately 12:35 a.m. He stated in the first call that Wynelle was sick, he could not *551wake her and he found blood on her pillow. He asked Mrs. Ayers to summon an ambulance. In the second call…