Pritchett v. State

The prisoner was indicted in the Circuit Court of Madison county, for the murder of one Henry Stammers. Upon his arraignment he pleaded not guilty; was tried and convicted of mqrder in the second degree, and sentenced by the court to confinement in the penitentiary for the term of ten years.

The proof conduced to show, that ill feeling had grown up between the deceased and the prisoner, on account of a warrant sued out by the latter against the deceased, before a justice of the peace; that the deceased had made threats of personal violence against the prisoner, which had been communicated to…