Blevins v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. A jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penintentiary for a term of twenty years The trial court rendered judgment and sentence accordingly. Appellant (defendant) filed and presented a motion for new trial, which was overruled by the trial court. This is an appeal from such judgment and sentence and from the order overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The death of the alleged victim, Roland Láveme…