Oldham v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years.

The deceased, Euclid Sullivan Weaver, known as Mac Weaver, was grievously wounded with a pistol ball, fired from a pistol of what is called a .44 or .45 caliber. The ball “entered in the back about a half or three quarters of an inch from the center of the spine, to the left of the spine, entering the middle portion of the body called the dorsal vertebra or the first lumbra (sic) and penetrated the spine and the liyer and…