Runyan v. State

Defendant prosecutes error from a conviction for manslaughter for which he was sentenced to a term of seven years in the penitentiary. The amended information is in two counts. The first count charges the defendant, Runyan, in conventional terms, as a principal, with second degree murder of John Harold Sollars, by shooting him. The second count charges that one Harry Johnson, purposely and maliciously, but without deliberation and premeditation, shot and killed Sollars with a rifle, thus committing murder in the second degree, and that Runyan was present, unlawfully, purposely and maliciously…