Smith v. State

The defendant, plaintiff in error, was charged with and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree', the penalty being by the jury fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary during life. The homicide charged in the information was the hilling of the wife of the defendant by shooting with a revolver. It is disclosed by the record that the deceased came to her death from a bullet wound in her right temple; that at the same time the defendant., received a wound from a bullet entering the right side and bach part of his head, which ranged forward and came out above and in front of the…