Powell v. State

Appellant was convicted of. murder in the second degree.

There is no need to discuss in detail the intimate facts of the homicide. The evidence very clearly warranted the verdict. The only question demanding specific treatment arises out of the following situation, to state the case in brief: The evidence for the state went to show that defendant, armed with a Winchester rifle, had gone to the place where deceased lived with his father, and, after killing the father, had killed deceased without; excuse or justification. Defendant’s theory of the ease was that he had killed the father in…