Grace v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding 'Judge.

The indictment charges appellant with the murder of Mollie Lane by shooting her with a pistol. He was convicted of murder in .the second degree, and given five years in the penitentiary.

The court gave the following charge: “He is also guilty of murder who prepares means by which a person may kill himself and with intent that such person shall thereby kill himself, if death results from the means prepared, even if the deceased in fact killed himself. * * * Should you under the foregoing instructions find that defendant did not in fact shoot and kill Mollie Lane, then…