State v. Fisher

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

Charles H. Fisher was found guilty of murder in the first degree. He has appealed. Briefly, the story of the homicide is as follows: Defendant, about twenty years of age, the oldest of seven children, lived with his father, who was of German descent, on *227a farm where he was born and reared, about seven miles south of Bunkerhill, in Russell county. His father owned the west half of the section. The house in which they lived at the time of the tragedy is near the northeast corner of the place and faces east; the old house, where the family…