State v. Clark

WYNN, Judge.

Defendant was charged by indictments with first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, first degree burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

The State’s evidence tended to show that defendant shot and killed his estranged wife’s boyfriend with a .357 magnum pistol, shot and wounded his wife’s brother with the same pistol, forced his way into an apartment where his wife had taken refuge, and pulled the trigger of the pistol at one of the residents of the apartment, but the gun did not discharge.

Defendant…