State v. Carter

* NOTE: Opinion filed at May Term, 1939, July 7, 1939; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled at the September Term, September 12, 1939. Appellant, Jesse Lee Carter, was convicted of murder in the second degree, in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years. He appealed. The question of the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the charge was preserved for review. The following facts are supported by substantial evidence: Ill feeling existed between the appellant and the deceased, Robert Lee Pierce. On the tenth…