Austin v. State

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Jerry Edward Austin, was charged with the offense of murder in the first degree, it being alleged that he did “feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, with malice aforethought and with premeditation and deliberation shoot and kill Mack Crawford Howell, or did stand by, aid, abet, assist, advise or encourage another in the shooting and killing of the said Mack Crawford Howell”. On trial, Austin was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. From the judgment so entered, Austin brings this appeal. For reversal,…