Little v. State

CARR, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The deceased, Clifford Grigsby, was a share cropper of the accused. The evidence discloses that a. misunderstanding arose over the landlord’s contention that the tenant was not equally dividing some corn as it was gathered. This discord resulted in bad feeling between the parties and finally climaxed in the homicide of instant concern.

Questions are presented which call for a detailed statement of the tendencies of some of the evidence.

There were four…