Rutherford v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

About ten o’clock at night on the 16th of February, 1924, the • deceased, J. H. Griffith, a deputy sheriff, received a gunshot wound from which he afterwards died. The wound was inflicted by the appellant who, after shooting Griffith, fired several shots at Conley, a constable who was with Griffith. Several shots were fired by Griffith at the appellant and he was wounded. The tragedy occurred in an alley in the business portion of Santa Anna, a town of about 1,500 inhabitants. Ragsdale…