Salmon v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Pontotoc county of the murder of Earl Hutchinson. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but failed to agree as to the punishment, and thereupon the court sentenced appellant to the penitentiary for his natural life. Prom that judgment, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The evidence for the state tended to establish the following state of facts:

The homicide took place on June 6,1925'. The deceased, Hutchinson, was a young, unmarried man of twenty-five years of age, and lived at Houlka, in Chickasaw county. The appellant was a married…