State v. Taylor

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Defendant Louis Taylor, charged with murder in the first degree, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and his punishment was assessed at forty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

Defendant-appellant had made seven assignments of error in his motion for a new trial, and, herein, now contends eight errors of the trial court. The basic contentions are that the evidence did not justify the submission of defendant’s guilt of murder, and that instructions submitting the issue of his guilt of murder in either degree…