Allen v. State

The appellant, Mat Allen, was convicted in the circuit court of Jasper county on a charge of murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and from this conviction and sentence this appeal was prosecuted.

The record discloses that the appellant was an unmarried man, living on a farm with his mother, who was helpless and blind, and supposed to be about one hundred years old. Jim Bethea, the deceased, was a mentally defective dwarf, an anemic of the most pronounced type, and physically very weak and emaciated. He was a nephew of the appellant, and, for about ten years prior to his death,…