Conner v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Murder, second degree: sentence, thirty years in the penitentiary.

I

Conner, according to the State’s evidence, managed to knock one William Johnson down in a roadway. While Johnson was still prostrate Conner ran his car over his body. James Small, a state toxicologist, testified that an autopsy of Johnson’s body revealed the liver to be extremely lacerated. He testified the “cause of death was the injury to the internal organs as a result of the large abrasions and trauma to the anterior surface of the abdomen and chest.”

Small further testified that the injuries were…