Richardson v. State

There has been unusual and unnecessary delay in perfecting the appeal in this case; the responsibility for which is shouldered by the court stenographer.

The evidence on part- of the State shows that appellant shot' James McBeth from the rear while he was walking with bowed head along a public road, evidently oblivious of the presence of appellant. The shot w-as fatal. This testimony comes from apparently disinterested eyewitnesses, whose evidence reads as if given intelligently and without bias or favor. It is true that another version is given by appellant and supported by his companion at…