State v. Galford

LYNCH, Judge:

To reverse the judgment of conviction for murder in the second degree and confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years defendant B'. L. Galford prosecutes this writ of error. Besides formal motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, he assigns • as erroneous rulings on instructions, admission of evidence and duration of imprisonment.

Defendant admits the homicide charged in the indictment and seeks to exonerate himself from responsibility for infliction of the fatal wound upon the theory that it resulted, not from an intention on his part to commit a…