Lawson v. State

CARR, Presiding judge.

The indictment in this case charges murder in the second degree. The trial resulted in a conviction of the same offense and the imposition of a sentence of ten years imprisonment.

On the occasion of concern the appellant, age 17, and two of his brothers, ages 15 and 21, were walking together across a farm field en route to their home. The accused cut his twenty-one year old brother with a pocket .knife. The injured person died on account of excessive bleeding from one of these wounds.

The county coroner testified that he found four knife or sharp instrument cuts on the…