Williams v. State

Appellant was tried, under an indictment charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by striking one Charles Davis with a club and thereby inflicting a wound, as a result of which said Davis died within a year and a day. On the trial of the cause appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree.

It is admitted that appellant struck Davis twice over the head with a heavy hickory club, and that the blows were struck without legal justification.

It is also admitted that Davis died a few months after the blows were struck, but it is contended that…