State v. Ameen

SEILER, Presiding Judge.

For the killing of one George H. Robinson defendant was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. He has appealed.

The evidence clearly authorized a finding of murder in the second degree. The defendant does not challenge its sufficiency and we need not set out in detail the circumstances established by the state’s evidence, because the issue before us depends on evidence from defendant’s side.

According to defendant’s evidence, the deceased died from a shotgun wound received while the deceased, the defendant, and one other man…