Tullis v. State

Elmer Tullis was indicted for murder in the first degree, charged to have been committed by killing Jim Norwood by shooting him with a pistol, in the town of Mineral Springs, Howard County, Ark. He was tried before a jury and convicted of murder in the second degree, his punishment being fixed at fifteen years in the State Penitentiary. To reverse the judgment of conviction against him, the defendant has duly prosecuted an appeal to this court.

According’ to the evidence adduced by the State, Jim Norwood came into the store of T. P. Dillard, at Mineral Springs, Howard County, Ark., on the…