Landreth v. State

This is a prosecution for murder, preferred by an indictment, which alleged that appellant did on November 29, 1924, unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, kill and murder Roswell Shields, which crime is defined by Acts 1905 p. 584, ch. 169, §347, §2412 Bums 1926.

The evidence presented by the briefs, which supports the verdict of guilty, may be narrated as follows: Landreth, the appellant, and Shields, the victim of the homicide, resided on their farms located one-half mile and a mile and a quarter south and southeast respectively from the village of Georgia in…