Paris v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The deceased was a wild life biologist at the Cat Fish Game Preserve in Anderson County. He was last seen alive by state’s witnesses at a time when he went into the marsh to investigate duck shooting which was evidently taking place therein. When the deceased did not return from the marsh, a searching party was organized; and, after three days of searching under the direction of the TJ. S. Air Force, his body, riddled with shot gun pellets, was found in shallow water under a log, apparently weighted down by a chunk of wood.

While the…