Howell v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and the death penalty was imposed. No motion for a new trial was filed, and we can therefore consider only the errors that appear on the face of the record. The attorney representing' appellant here did not represent him in the lower court.

The evidence showed that Howell was an inmate of the county hospital in Crawford County; that, a few days before the killing with which he is charged, the superintendent, Deffenbaugh, asked Howell to fix a bed for a patient, and Howell told him he would not do that for him or anybody else. He became…