Wester v. State

Woodrow Wester and Ralph Wester were convicted of murder in the first degree in a trial on an indictment charging the former with killing W. W. Wester, with premeditated design, and the latter with being present, aiding and abetting the former in the commission of the act. The jury recommended mercy and sentence to imprisonment for- life was thereupon imposed. From the judgment separate appeals were taken.

W. W. Wester was shot about eight o’clock in the evening as he sat by the window of his home reading, as was his custom. The murderer fired through the screen and the full force of the…