Oliver v. State

Lee Seamster, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Harold Oliver, was tried in Union Circuit Court, 1st division, under an information charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting and killing one H. H. Parks. A verdict was returned finding him guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixing his punishment at twenty-one years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment pronounced on that verdict is this appeal.

For reversal of the judgment, the appellant lists the following points: (1) the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; (2) the…