Holton v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the second degree upon an indictment charging him with the murder of John Slaughter in Madison County on September 21, 1921.

A motion for a new trial was denied and the defendant was sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment in the. State prison at hard labor. He seeks on writ of error to reverse the judgment.

The first proposition is that the verdict is contrary to the evidence. The body of Slaughter was found lying on the side of a road about fifty yards east of the defendant’s •house. There was a wound in the head of the dead man sufficient…