Forsha v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereafter referred to as the defendant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of Wayne County. He was sentenced to serve twenty years and a day in the state penitentiary. He has appealed and assigned a number of errors. It is conceded by counsel that the assignments present only one question, to-wit, Does the evidence preponderate against the verdict of the jury and in favor of his innocence?

The defendant shot and killed Richard Cook, a young man about seventeen years of age, on a tow boat that was tied to a barge at a…