State v. Cook

Lively, Judge:

This writ is to review a sentence of fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary based upon a verdict of murder *168in the second degree. The tragedy occurred about 4, o’clock Sunday afternoon on December 11, 1921, in the public road in front of the dwelling of Blaine Cook, a cousin of defendant. A short time before the fatal affray defendant, Blaine Cook his cousin, and Emma the wife of the latter, and a Miss Mooney, a daughter of Blaine Cook’s wife, were at the dwelling when deceased came by and engaged in a friendly conversation with Blaine Cook and defendant. It seems that…