Methvin v. State

(after stating the facts as above). Appellant, Henry Methvin, was convicted in the district court of Ottawa county of the crime of murder, and in pursuance of the verdict of the jury was sentenced to suffer death by electrocution.

The errors assigned and argued will be considered in the order presented in appellant’s brief. The first assignment is that: “The evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction.”

It was the theory of the state that the defendant, Methvin, is guilty of murder for the reason that he either actually shot and killed Cal Campbell, or aided and abetted Clyde Barrow in the…