Belcher v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was indicted for the murder of his father, W. B. Belcher, in Hardeman County on or about May 31, 1912. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at sixty years confinement in the penitentiary.

On June 7, 1912, the dead body of a man was found in a secluded place in Horton’s pasture in said county, which was about thirteen miles distant from said W. B. Belcher’s home, where he had lived for some time prior to May 31, 1912, and where he was seen alive on that date. Whether this dead body was that of W. B. Belcher or not was…