State v. Saunders

Maxwell, Judge:

Tbe defendant was convicted in tbe circuit court of Logan county of tbe murder of Dennis Smith and was sentenced to be banged. He prosecutes this writ of error.

Evidence introduced by the state warranted the jury m believing that about one o’clock in the morning of July 1, 1928, the defendant approached a group of some five or six young men who were standing near a railroad track in the town of Lundale in Logan county, and without provocation, fired three shots from a revolver, the second of which passed through the body of Dennis Smith and into the body of Gus Bloxton, each of…