Anderson v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The indictment was for murder in the first degree, charging that the defendant killed the deceased, Paul Franks, by “burning him with fire.” Trial resulted in a conviction of murder in the second degree and a sentence of twenty years imprisonment was imposed. Hence the appeal.

Several days after the supposed night of his death, the body of deceased was discovered in a frozen condition and bearing evidences of burns sufficient to have produced death. The doctors thought that death resulted from the burns (and so testified), rather than from freezing; so how he met his death was a…