Goocher v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

The defendant was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at life imprisonment.

The witnesses Smith and Cobb testified to finding the body of deceased, on the ground, with a whisky bottle near by; that he was shot several times; that there were signs of bullets having struck the ground at or near the body; and the sheriff was notified.

The witness Golden testified that he was the sheriff; went to the body, found it at the point indicated, clad, as he indicated, in a pair of light trousers, black slippers and a shirt; that, the…