Stewart v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death.

The evidence offered by the state goes to show that on August 5, 1934, between 2 and 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the defendant went to the home of Hannah Langford to see Ella Owens, a daughter of the deceased, who had been living with the defendant, though not married to him, and, on being ordered to leave the house by the deceased, forced his way through the door and shot Hannah two or three times with a pistol, inflicting the wounds on her person from which she died about 11 o’clock p. m. of the…