Graham v. State

Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.

Information charged Charlie Graham with having feloniously shot L. C. Smith with the intention of killing him. He has appealed from a six-year penitentiary sentence.

The evidence is circumstantial. Smith had lived in Hope four or five years. An inference runs through some of the testimony that he had “turned Graham in” on a whiskey charge. But Smith denied at trial that he knew who shot him; nor did he remember having told officers that immediately before the shot was fired he was hailed by Graham and that the latter mentioned a whiskey transaction. The extent of…