Myles v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict finding appellant guilty of murder in the second degree. The grand jury of Marion County returned an indictment against the appellant charging in substance that in said county he, “Willie Buddy Myles,” on January 26, 1947, with premeditated malice did kill and murder Jesse Avery by shooting him with a pistol thereby inflicting a mortal wound upon him from which he died January 31, 1947. Appellant fled the state and was not arrested on this charge until December of 1950, when he was apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Omaha,…