Leftwich v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant, having been convicted of murder in the second degree, and given twenty years in the penitentiary, prosecutes this appeal. The indictment contains two counts. The first count charges the killing by shooting with a pistol; the second, by striking with a piece of iron.

Hillia Wilkerson, for the State, testified, that hearing a noise in one of the rooms of the hotel, she approached it, and saw defendant strike deceased on the head with a piece of iron; that she then returned to her room; that in about fifteen or twenty minutes thereafter she heard a pistol shot, which…