Harris v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder followed by a life sentence in the penitentiary. The appellant’s complaints are (1) that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict, and (2) that the court below erred in the granting of one and the refusal of another instruction.

The evidence is in sharp conflict, but that for the state, by several witnesses, is that the appellant deliberately and without excuse therefor killed the deceased with a deadly weapon; that for the appellant is that he killed the deceased in necessary self-defense. The appellant’s guilt vel non, therefore, was…