Weldon v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Yell Circuit Court of the crime of murder in the first degree in the killing of one W. D. Jones. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing his punishment at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. From the judgment rendered in accordance with the verdict, he prosecutes this appeal.

The testimony for the State is substantially as follows : W. D. Jones was a forest ranger. His duty was to patrol the United States Government Forest Reservation for the purpose of preventing fires, trespass, etc. The forest…