Knight v. State

The second count of an indictment returned by the Grand Jury of Houston County charged appellant with the murder in the first degree of his wife, Melba Joyce Knight, by shooting her with a pistol. The jury found appellant guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in this count and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment.

The trial judge, after due allocution, pronounced sentence in accordance with the jury’s verdict and entered proper judgment from which this appeal was taken.

The scene of the alleged crime was at the modest home of appellant and the deceased at or near a fringe area of…