Garrison v. State

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree. The deceased, Sam Boyett, a deputy sheriff, fifty-two years of age, was shot and killed late on an afternoon in July, 1980, at Mason Hall, a small village in Ohion County, where he lived. The killing grew out of and followed an altercation between the deceased and John Garrison, a man sixty-two years of age, the father of plaintiff in error. Plaintiff in error came on the scene during the altercation between the two older men, the deceased being the younger, heavier and stronger of the two, heard some words exchanged and saw one…