Hill v. State

Upon trial on an indictment charging murder in the first degree of Reginald Williams, appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years.

No contention is made on appeal that the evidence was not sufficient to justify the verdict of the jury, and we see no reasonable basis for such a contention.

There is little, if any, need for a recitation of any of the evidence, but a brief summary of some of it is here given.

The principal witness for the State was Charles Taylor, an acquaintance of both the victim and…