Leedy v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, four years in the penitentiary.

On Christmas Day, 1927, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Atwood, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Green and the deceased, Paul Pugh, left Ranger in the afternoon and went to a nearby village for dinner. About dark they started home and were accosted by two men, one tall and the other short, the tall man being identified as the appellant. One of the men knocked on the windowpane of their car and offered to sell them some whiskey. A quarrel ensued between Reeves and the “short man,” ending in the “short man” telling him that he would show him “what…