Lewis v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

After the overruling of his motion for a new trial, James E. Lewis appeals from a conviction for the second degree murder of James Albert Cole, for which he was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Conecuh County to a term of ten years in the State penitentiary.

The twenty-one year old appellant was on leave from the United States Army visiting at the home of his father, Alfred Lewis, in Range, Alabama, on Saturday, May 12, 1962. On that Saturday afternoon the now deceased, James Cole, drove up to the front of the Lewis home and persuaded the appellant to ride with him to Deer…