This is an appeal by Howard V. Tate from a conviction of murder and a life sentence in the penitentiary on account of the killing of his stepson, Buddy Leflore, a seventeen year old boy.
On August 14, 1955, about night, a quarrel arose between the defendant and his wife, Louise, whom he had married about four months previously. He called her a lie, or a hot lie, and she struck or pushed him with a broom, and...
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