State v. Richmond

The appellant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Butler County with murder in the first degree in having shot and killed one Hersehel Walker. Upon a trial to a jury he was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at fifteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this judgment he appeals.

The appellant, the deceased and several others were living at the time of the homicide in house-boats on Black River. On the night of September 27, 1927, several of these persons, including the appellant and the deceased, were playing cards for money in a…