Buchanan v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of J. P. Brandt in Taylor County on December 6, 1926. The indictment was filed in January, 1927. The accused was convicted of murder in the first degree with recommendation to mercy and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the State prison. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on writ of error.

The facts, which the record fully supports, are in substance as follows:

Buchanan, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, lived with his wife in a four-room cottage about fourteen miles from the city of Perry in Taylor County. On the 6th of December,…