Supreme Court of Arkansas February 11, 1918 (Baine v. State)

SMITH, J.

Appellant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting Annie Baine, who was his wife. At his trial he admitted firing the fatal shot, but testified that he did so in his necessary self-defense. He and his wife had had frequent disagreements, -and she had twice left him and returned to the home of her father.