Carter v. State

Otis Carter was indicted for the murder of Mary Austin, alleged to have been committed with a metal ice-pick and other sharp instruments to the grand jury unknown, the same being a weapon likely to produce death. The evidence for the State was substantially as follows:

0. H. Tompkins testified: He saw both the defendant and the deceased on October 13, 1928, about ten a. m.; saw the defendant *408stab the deceased. Before that time he had been in the house. Della wanted some stuff out of the commissary. He went there to get it for her. Defendant was around in the back, and deceased was in the…