State v. McCray

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Frank Allen McCray was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to from ten to fifteen years in the penitentiary. The majority opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals reversed and ordered a new trial, finding from an analysis of the testimony that, “ — it is substantially and essentially uncontradicted upon this record that the defendant acted only in his neces*264sary and proper self-defense in killing the deceased . . . ” We granted the State’s petition for certiorari because we agreed with the dissenting opinion that under the evidence in this case defendant’s…