Coley v. State

The record in this case shows that one morning about sun-up the defendant found his wife and Robert Johnson *754in a pine thicket, “acting just like man and wife,” that Johnson escaped, and that the wife was stabbed several times by the defendant;-that the defendant said, “Kobert got away, I couldn’t get him, but I got her,” and “I put my knife to her.” In his statement at the trial he said: “I found Eobert Johnson and my wife down there just like man and wife; so by being kinder dark and I couldn’t see, and I stepped right up on them for certain. I run into them, and the first one I got to I cut…