Bryant v. State

Ira Bryant was tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder; and the jury trying the case returned a verdict of guilty, without a recommendation. The defendant made a motion for new trial, which was overruled, and to the judgment overruling the motion he excepted.

It appears from the evidence that on the evening of the homicide Jim Lewis, the decedent, accompanied the accused to the latter’s home. It was late in the afternoon. About 9:30 o’clock that night Dr. C. H. Maxwell was summoned to visit the decedent, who was still at the defendant’s home. He found Lewis upon his…