Moulton v. State

The indictment charged murder in the first degree. The defendant was- convicted of murder in the second degree. Pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity were interposed.

On a Sunday in July, 1922, a crowd was assembled at Friendship Church in Coving-ton county for an all day singing. The deceased, . Otis Kendrick, his father and family, the defendant, several' of his brothers, two brothers-in-law, and others were present. '

The evidence on behalf of the state tended to show that the deceased reached the .church about 2 o’clock in the afternoon; that, when deceased started up the…