Turner v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, the indictment charging, in the proper way, the murder of one Sanford Howell Henderson.

Upon his trial, under the above indictment, he was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of fifteen years.

Deceased, who was also known as Boss Henderson, disappeared on the night of November 4, 1928, and his dead body was discovered, late in the following day, a short distance north of Vincent, in Shelby county, about two hundred feet from a seldom used road,…