Cofer v. State

Appellant appeals from a conviction and life sentence upon an indictment charging him with the murder of John Pruitt on the night of October 20, 1927. Deceased was called from his house at night by unknown persons and asked to come out to the roadside near by, where he was shot to his death. Pour empty shotgun shells were found by the body, all being twelve-gauge buckshot shells.

The theory of the state seems to have been that the assassination was due to a' conspiracy, formed by appellant and others, and that on the night in question appellant drove the death car, putting the c’o-conspirators…