Taylor v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

On the 13th day of August, 1941, the Grand Jury of Harrison County returned an indictment against the appellant charging him with the murder of Harry Bechtold by shooting him with a gun. After two trials were had in said county which resulted in hung juries, the court changed the venue of the case from Harrison to Marion County, where appellant was tried with the result above stated.

The evidence adduced by the State, briefly stated, shows that appellant and the…