Johnson v. State

Appellant was charged by information with the offense of murder in the first degree for unlawfully killing Rinehart Herman Doerr on August 30, 1945, by “striking, bruising and choking him.” Prom judgment, based on trial jury’s verdict, finding him guilty of murder in the second degree and sentencing him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of twelve years, he prosecutes this appeal.

For reversal numerous rulings of the lower court as to admission of evidence and as to instructions are urged by appellant as having been erroneous and prejudicial, and it is also contended that the…