Tatum v. State

Appellant, J. E. Tatum, was indicted at tbe September, 1935, term of tbe Lafayette county circuit court for tbe murder of bis wife, Mrs. Vivian Cooper Tatum; was convicted and given a life sentence in tbe state penitentiary, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

It appears that this killing occurred on September 9, 1931.

It was the theory of the state that the appellant and his wife returned from a visit late in the afternoon of that day and that the appellant drove his car up to the back porch of his home, this being his custom in order that he might step conveniently from the running board to…