Green v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

Claud Green, alias Cotton Green, was convicted of murder in the first degree and received a sentence of life imprisonment. This appeal is from that sentence and judgment.

On a painstaking study of the record, the ■court has reached the conclusion that certain errors occurred in the trial which necessitate a reversal of the judgment.

Following is a brief summary of the pertinent evidence: The victim, Mrs. Ada Boshell, aged seventy-three years at her death, lived alone in a rural area in Winston County on the Nauvoo-Double Springs road. Her nude body was discovered by a neighbor,…