Meeks v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

The accused was tried in the court below under an indictment charging him with first degree murder and adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree. The sentence imposed was fifteen years.

Without dispute in the evidence the appellant killed one Plomer McCord by shooting him in the head with a shotgun.

*173The defendant testified that on the day of the homicide as he was driving his tractor he saw the deceased, who at the time was approaching him with an ax in his hand. Under these circumstances he suddenly fired the fatal shot. It appears that there was a fence between the…