Potts v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Grayson County on a charge of murder. On May 14, 1908, he was found guilty by the jury of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years. He promptly filed a motion for a new trial, which contains many grounds, and has duly prosecuted his appeal to this court.

The facts of the ease are involved in much doubt and obscurity and while we can not say that the evidence is so inconclusive as would justify us in reversing the case for lack of testimony to support the…