Reece v. State

Floyd Reece was indicted for the offense of murder, and it was alleged that he willfully and unlawfully and with .malice aforethought did kill and murder Guy Stringer with a shotgun, thereby inflicting a mortal wound from which Stringer died. On the trial of the ease the jury returned a verdict of guilty and recommended life imprisonment in the penitentiary of the State; and the defendant was sentenced accordingly. A motion for new trial being overruled, the defendant excepted.

The first, second, and third grounds of the amendment to the motion for new trial will be considered together, as…