Veatch v. State

The appellant, George Veatch, charged by information with first degree murder, was convicted of murder in the second degree and appeals from a judgment sentencing him to imprisonment for five years.

The evidence concerning the homicide itself is almost without dispute. On the afternoon of November 24,1951, Veatch was occupying a cabin at the Ozark Tourist Court. Dee Ashford and M. R. Dunn arrived at the tourist court and engaged a cabin for a friend of theirs, Buddy Glover. While Ashford was assisting Glover in getting settled Veatch, noticeably intoxicated, entered Glover’s cabin, accused…