State v. Banton.

Appellant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Grundy County with murder in the first degree, in having shot and killed his wife, Mattie. Upon a trial in the Mercer Circuit Court, to which the venue was awarded on appellant’s application for a change, he was convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he appeals.

Appellant is a negro, and at the time of the alleged offense, he and his wife were, respectively, thirty-two and thirty-five years of age. They lived at Trenton, where he had been employed some years as chauffeur and houseboy, and she as a…