Johnson v. State

Cliarlie Johnson prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for murder in the second degree. The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree and was tried before a jury, which found him guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at twenty-one years in the State Penitential.

According to the evidence for the State, Charlie Johnson shot gnd killed R. B. Wood on the 15th day of May, 1922, in Drew County, Ark. Some time in January, 1922, Elston Wood, a son of R. B. Wood, deceased, killed Curtis Baker, a half-brother of the defendant. Elston…