Davis v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first degree and the jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree.

The deceased was the wife of plaintiff in error, and there is evidence in the record that on Christmas night, nineteen thirty-seven, they had quarrelled about the husband’s attentions to other women. Upon reaching their home, from -the business section of La Belle, where the argument commenced, the wife was mortally wounded by a charge of small shot from the husband’s' shotgun. There were no eye witnesses to the homicide.

It was the defendant’s version that he…