Supreme Court of Arkansas May 6, 1985, CR 85-60 (Davies v. State)

George Rose Smith, Justice.

On January 5,1984, at a time when the appellant Melvin Davies and his wife were separated, he went to see her at her place of employment in Eudora. After about two hours of conversation the couple got into an argument, and Davies shot her in the chest with a .357 magnum pistol. He was charged with first-degree battery by having caused serious physical injury.