Adams v. State

Appellant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting and killing one Bob Smith, and, upon his trial, was convicted of that charge and given a life sentence in the penitentiary. ■

Numerous errors are assigned for the reversal of the judgment of the court below, and, among others, that the undisputed testimony shows that appellant was not guilty of murder in either the first or the second degree, and that the court erred in submitting the question of his guilt of any degree of murder to the jury.

In passing upon this assignment of error,…