Wade v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

From conviction for murder in the District Court of Wichita County, with punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary, this appeal is taken.

Appellant killed her husband and sought acquittal on the ground of insanity, or at least the reduction of the offense to manslaughter. She claimed that her husband had been intimate with one Alice Meredith, and that he had mistreated her, and that this with other things preyed on her mind until it became affected. She shot her husband one night about one o’clock, at which time he was lying in the bed, and it is not claimed that he…