Sanderlin v. State

Appellant was indicted, charged with murder in the first degrefe for the killing of one Harold Robin, by stabbing and cutting him, from which he died a few hours later. On a trial he was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at eighteen years in the penitentiary. The facts are substantially as follows:

A party of young people who were boarding with Mrs. Green, in Monticello, went out to the Nelson home, about six miles west of Monticello, on the Wilmar road, to attend a dance, at invitation of Miss Ouida Nelson. A number of them went on a truck. The…