Meyer v. State

This writ of error was taken to a judgment imposing a death sentence upon a verdict of murder in the first degree.

The accused testified that the deceased was killed at night by the discharge of a pistol in the hand of deceased while the defendant was scuffling with the deceased, who had assaulted the accused at the solitary home of the deceased where the defendant was visiting him. The body of the deceased was rudely buried by the accused, and property belonging to the deceased was found in the possession of the accused when he was arrested the next day in a nearby city.

The indictment…