Micker v. State

The appellant was convicted in the circuit court of Warren county on a charge of murder, and was sentenced to the state penitentiary for life; and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

The testimony offered by the state and by the appellant was sharply conflicting. One of the witnesses introduced by the state testified that he came upon the appellant and the deceased, Jeanette Nelson, in the public road where the killing occurred; that as he approached them, and when he was about twenty yards from them, he heard the appellant curse the deceased; that when he was within…