McClusky v. State

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.

The several objections and exceptions reserved on the introduction of evidence are without merit. Defendant gave his version of the fatal difficulty, and stated, without objection, that the evening before the killing he left home and went west on the pike; that he had some words with deceased, and drove on down the pike past the house of deceased for some distance, and remained 15 of 20 minutes; that, returning by way of the pike, “just before he got to the…