Cochran v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The principals, in the unfortunate tragedy disclosed by the record, that is to say, the defendant and the deceased, were total strangers to each other. They had never seen each other, and did not know each other’s name. This-fact being without dispute the appellant earnestly insists there co-uld have been no motive in -talcing the life of deceased except to save his own life or to save him from suffering grievous bodily harm. The evidence as to the immediate facts of the difficulty tended to show that appellant uttered no word, nor committed any act which was…