Green v. State

Mr. Kikhey, Special Justice,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error, Jesse Green, was convicted in the circuit court of Lauderdale county of the murder of one Andrew Buttram. Green and Dick Dowdy were jointly indicted for murder in the first degree of said Buttram, hut on the trial of the cause Dowdy was acquitted, and Green found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the State penitentiary.

A motion for a new trial was duly made and overruled, and the defendant Green prayed and perfected this appeal.

Buttram was shot and killed…