West v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment charged murder in the first degree. Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree. His punishment was fixed at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Deceased, Roland Lee Bradburn, was shot and killed at Bill’s Place, a beer tavern operated by Bill Pearson, on Highway 78 in Jefferson County.

Bradburn, his brother-in-law, William O. Coley, and his nephew, James Coley, had been at Bill’s Place on Thanksgiving night of 1950, from 8:30 until about 1:30 when the killing occurred.

The State contends soon after deceased and his party arrived appellant sat down…