Blocker v. State

Jenkins, Justice.

1. The verdict of murder with a recommendation to mercy was sustained by evidence of the wife of the deceased, that he and the defendant were shooting dice back of a house while she was in the house; that when she heard a pistol shot and ran out, she found her husband on the ground, shot; that there was no pistol in his hands or near him; that he did not have a pistol, and his knife was in his pocket; that the defendant “was standing there by the corner of the house and [her] husband was down on his all-fours;” and by the admission of the defendant in his statement to the…