Fields v. State

Nathan Fields was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree, charged to have been committed by shooting and killing Grady Talley with a pistol. He was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict of guilty of .murder in the second degree, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for ten years. From the judgment of conviction the defendant has duly prosecuted an appeal to this court.

It is earnestly insisted by counsel for the defendant that the evidence is not legally sufficient to support the verdict. The killing of a person with a deadly weapon, when…