Henson v. State

BRO-WN, Justice.

The appellant Thomas Collins Henson was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree under indictment charging that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Clyde Alexander Clayton by cutting him with a knife or some other sharp instrument, a better description of which is to the grand jury unknown. The trial resulted in verdict of guilty, fixing punishment at life imprisonment, followed by the sentence of the law pronounced by the court, in accordance with the verdict of the jury. From that judgment he has appealed.

The evidence is without dispute that…