State v. Parker

In the Circuit Court of Grundy County, April 11, 1927, on a charge of murder in the first degree, the appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He w'as fifty years old at the time of the trial. The homicide occurred November 5, 1926. The victim was Jack Freeman, his stepson, the appellant having married Jack’s mother twenty-seven years before the trial when Jack was about ten years of age.

The appellant claims the evidence is insufficient to sustain a verdict and the jury should have been instructed…