Allsup v. State

The defendant was indicted for the murder of Marion Ballinger in May, 1874, at a school-house, where the parties had met in attendance on a civil trial before a justice of the peace, the case being between, defendant and one Yeates — Ballinger having been present as a witness for Yeates. The conviction is for murder in second degree.

The material facts of the transaction described in the record are few aud easy to he understood from *363the record. There is in fact but little if any discrepancy in the statements made of the leading and essential facts, by the witnesses for the State, and those for…