Wiley v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John R. Tyson. cited State v. Graham, 61 Iowa, 608; Spivey v. Slate, 58 Miss. 858; 9 Amer. & Eng. Encyc. of Law, 683.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
-The appellant was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced for life, for the murder of his wife, Dora Wiley. The killing by him was not controverted, but he relied on self-defense. The evidence for the State tended to show that, a short time before the killing, the defendant “had made several threats that he was going to kill Dora, his wife, if she did not go home and cook his supper, and said that he was going to ask her to go, and if she did not when he asked her, he would kill her; said threats were made at the time of, and after the defendant had gone to several to borrow a pistol; that…
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