Owens v. State

The plaintiff in error, Milton Owens, was tried in the superior court of Stewart county, upon an indictment charging him with the murder of his father, Shep Owens. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the accused made a motion for a new trial, to the overruling of which he excepted. The evidence upon which the State relied for a conviction was substantially as follows: The deceased was killed shortly before eleven o’clock at uight, and early the next morning his body was found in his yard, some fifteen or twenty steps' from the back door of his *206house. There were signs of a considerable…