State v. Robinett

The defendant was charged in the Circuit Court of Butler County with murder in the first degree, found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of fifty years, from which judgment he appeals.

The defendant shot and killed John Carter at the village of Oglesville, Butler County, on the morning of November 26,1923. Carter went to the defendant’s house and stopped at the front gate. A young man named Noah Miles accompanied Carter on an errand of his own. Robinett was on his front porch. Carter called to him saying; “Bill, come here I want to talk to you.…