Doss v. State

Defendant was convicted of murder in the. second degree. That he killed John Rickies, his brother-in-law (defendant and deceased married sisters) with a shotgun, fired at close range, is not denied, and reliance was had upon his plea of self-defense. Any detailed statement of the evidence is unnecessary. It will suffice to say that for the state supported the charge of murder in the first degree, while the defendant’s proof tended to support his plea of self-defense.

At the time of the shooting, the wives of the respective parties, the two sisters, were engaged in a difficulty, defendant’s…