People v. Palmer

The respondent was convicted of murder in the second degree. The offense charged was shooting and killing his brother. The testimony on the part of the people tended to show that On the day of the shooting the respondent and his brother had some words of dispute in a saloon; that the respondent left the saloon, deceased remaining there; that the respondent proceeded to arm himself with a double-barreled shot gun, and returned to the saloon. The deceased had in the mean time armed himself with a revolver. The respondent stepped up to the door of a screen which divided the front from the rear…