Roberts v. State

The defendant was convicted of murder, and life imprisonment in the penitentiary was recommended by the jury. He was a man of mature years; his exact age is not disclosed in the record, but it does appear that one of his witnesses was a grandson. The decedent was a youth. The father of the deceased and the defendant lived on the same plantation. The deceased was the owner of a cow, which had'browsed in the fields of the defendant before he had finished gathering his matured crop. The decedent had gone to find his cow, and stopped at the house of the defendant, where he received the gunshot…