Wacaster v. State

STATEMENT BY THE COURT.

Lee Wacaster, appellant, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Garland Circuit Court for the crime of murder in the first degree for killing Tillman Brown, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from this judgment prosecutes an appeal.

It appears from the testimony that there had been some previous trouble and fighting between the deceased, Tillman Brown, and threats made by him against appellant, whose wife was Brown's stepsister; that, on the day of the killing, Brown and his wife had driven up to the front of Wacaster's house, and…