Braswell v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree of Oscar Otis Daniel, Jr., by shooting him with a shotgun. The jury trying him fixed his punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. He had pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. This is an appeal from a judgment in accordance with the verdict.

Evidence, undisputed on the trial and unquestioned on this appeal, was that the named victim was killed in the early evening or late afternoon, January 3, 1972, at a tavern in Lee County.

Witnesses for the State testified that…