Wilson v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant admitted that he shot and killed one Wilbur Harris; but claimed that he did it in self-defense, as that term is known to the law.

Upon a trial under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree, 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 ten years.

The testimony was in hopeless conflict ; that for the State making out a clear case of murder in the first degree; and that for the defendant (appellant) tending to support his plea of not guilty by…