Robinson v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The appellant has been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. From this judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The state’s evidence tends to show that defendant killed one Perry Elam by shooting him with a pistol.

There were no witnesses to the actual shooting. The defendant testified he went to Elam’s apartment the morning of May 22, 1968, in response to deceased’s telephoned request. Elam asked him to sell color televisions, cigarettes and other articles for him and when defendant refused Elam called him a police…