Lester v. State

Mb. Chiee Justice Burnett

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a homicide case, wherein a father was convicted of shooting his son. The sentence by the jury was that the father serve ten (10) years in the State, penitentiary, from which conviction an appeal has been seasonably perfected and ably argued before the bar of this Court. After carefully reading the record, studying the authorities, etc., we now have the matter for disposition.

The following well worded paragraph from the State’s brief is amply supported by the factual situation herein, which was apparently believed by the jury.…