Day v. State

This appeal is from a judgment sentencing appellant to life imprisonment upon a conviction for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by killing Walter Harris, who at the time he was ¡killed was the sheriff of Miller County.

At the time of the killing, appellant, who was nineteen years of age, was engaged in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, in violation of the law. He had been previously convicted of a violation of the National Prohibition Law in the United States District Court, and was under probation by order of said court to Sheriff Harris.

Having…