Miller v. State

The appellant was tried in the lower court and convicted of murder in the second degree. His sentence was fixed at thirty years imprisonment. From this judgment and sentence he brings this appeal.

The facts were set out in appellant’s brief and supplemented by those set out in appellee’s brief. Appellant’s brief states, the following:

“On the 3rd day of August, 1969, appellant had a minor altercation with oneTilton Wood, the brother of the deceased Millard Wood at Lonzie Holloway’s store on U. S. Highway Number 231 near the-Strawberry Community in the extreme-northern part of Blount County,…