Selman v. State

G. G. Billings, a lawyer living in the city of DeQueen, Arkansas, whose office was situated upstairs in what is designated as the Tobin building, on the morning of September 21, 1922, was shot and killed in his office by Boy Selman. Selman was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree for the killing of Billings, and was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced, by judgment of the court, to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for five years, from which judgment he appeals.

Mrs. Billings, who assisted her husband in the office work, was in the office on…