Walker v. State

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Thomas Walker, was charged by Information with the crime of First Degree Murder. The case went to trial and the jury returned a verdict of guilty, fixing Walker’s punishment at death in the electric chair. The cause is here on appeal. Appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction, and that a verdict of acquittal should have been directed by the court.

On March 9, 1957, around 9:30 p. m., a Saturday night, J. W. Orman, while on duty at the Cates Esso Station in West Memphis, was killed by a shotgun blast, fired by a…