Wootton v. State

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Richard Wootton, appellant herein, was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 15 years in the State Penitentiary allegedly for killing one Ulice Miller in the late evening of October 17, 1959.

About noon on the above mentioned date appellant and the deceased, after completing a business transaction, planned to have a fish fry that evening at a designated site. It was also mentioned that others might be invited. Pursuant to this plan the deceased and one Dow-ell Clark went by appellant’s home around 3 o’clock that afternoon and loaded appellant’s…