Vaden v. State

Tlie appellant was convicted in the Miller Circuit Court on a valid indictment charging him with the murder of one Lawrence Harris “by striking and beating him, the said Lawrence Harris, with an instrument, the exact description of said instrument being unknown to the grand jury.’’

It is unnecessary to set forth the testimony in detail. It suffices to say there was testimony from which the jury might have found that the appellant acted too hastily in killing the deceased. Appellant killed the deceased on Sunday night. On the Saturday night preceding appellant was in a car across the street…