Martin v. State

NIX, Judge.

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged by information with the crime of Murder in the District Court of Garfield County. He was tried before a jury, found guilty, and sen tenced to life imprisonment. He lodged his appeal in this Court by Post-Conviction Appeal granted in case No. A-14,299, asserting numerous assignments of error. This case arose out of a beer parlor altercation on January 16, 1963, wherein the operator of said beer parlor, Austin F. (Polly) Beckworth was killed with a .45 automatic pistol held in the hand of defendant, Lester A.…