Ogles v. State

GrieeiN Smith, Chief Justice.

Darrell Ogles, 24 years of age, shot and killed Tom Green in June 1948 and has appealed from a judgment of life imprisonment.

Green was Marshal in the Town of Rector and was sometimes aided by Night. Officer John Joiner. During the afternoon of the day of the tragedy appellant, with his brother Leon, had patronized a pool hall, where Green and Joiner were informed a disturbance had been caused by the Ogles brothers. When the officers returned a second time to the pool hall they were convinced that Leon was intoxicated. He was directed to go home to avoid arrest,…