Cook v. State

F. M. Cook, appellant, hereafter called Cook, was indicted by the grand jury of Baxter County, Arkansas, for the crime of murder in the first degree in the killing of one Jasper Wilson, on or about the 24th of August, 1922, in Baxter County. He was tried on the 15th of September, 1923, and convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced, by judgment of the court, to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, for a period of fifteen years. He appealed from that judgment.

The facts are substantially as follows: One Jim Wilson was the tenant of Cook, on a farm in Baxter County. Jasper Wilson…