Steele v. State

At the January term, 1923, of the circuit court of Dallas county, the grand jury of said county preferred an indictment against this appellant, charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree; the charge being that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Frank. Harris, by striking him with a weapon, a description of which is unknown to the grand jury. He was tried upon this indictment, the jury returning a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixing his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for 18 years. Judgment was pronounced and entered…