Nettles v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The testimony in this case discloses conclusively, that this appellant, defendant below, shot and killed Clifton Avery, with a shot gun, as charged in the indictment. The jury, as the law requires, fixed his punishment, and in accordance with the verdict, defendant was duly and legally sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.

There was some slight conflict in the evidence and the trial court properly submitted the case to the jury.

There were very few exceptions reserved by defendant’s earnest counsel to the court’s rulings pending the…