Williford v. State

' The indictment under which the defendant was tried alleged that he had committed the offense of murder by Unlawfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought killing one Harmon West by shooting the said Harmon West with .a certain pistol, inflicting a wound from which wound said Harmon‘West died. The jury found the defendant guilty, without any recommendation. He made a motion for a 'new trial, to the overruling •of which he excepts. The evidence disclosed that there was only ■one eye-witness to the homicide. That witness testified substantially as follows: His father was a justice of the…