State v. Palmer

The jury, trying the appellant on an information charging him with the commission of the crime of murder in the first degree, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree, after having presented for its consideration testimony on behalf of the appellant in support of his plea of self-defense.

On March 26,1917, at the town of Milan, in Spokane county, the appellant shot and killed Neis Yerback. Several persons, among whom was the deceased, had congregated at a pool hall, where they had been drinking diluted alcohol, and one of them, the fifteen-year old son of the deceased, had become…