Degro v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was duly arraigned upon the indictment which charged him with the offense of murder in the first degree; and, in answer thereto, interposed a plea of not guilty. He relied upon self defense to justify his admitted fact that he did kill the deceased by shooting him with a pistol. The trial resulted in the conviction of defendant for the offense of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at twenty years imprisonment.

There were no eye witnesses to the actual shooting, except the defendant, and his version of the killing was testified to by…