Coleman v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree. The jury fixed the minimum punishment, imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years. He was sentenced accordingly.

According to the evidence for the State, the body of the alleged victim was found on January 25, 1975, at approximately 4:00 P.M., in a residential section of Ashland. He was there examined by the coroner, the chief of police and others. There were four bullet “holes” in the body. The record is not clear as to which, if any, were entrance holes as distinguished from exit holes.…