Harmon v. State

Appellant, a young man twenty-two years of age, of established good character, was convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment, as an accessory before the fact in the murder of Remus Cooper, on the uncorroborated testimony of Martha Cooper, the nineteen year old daughter of the deceased. The said daughter was the actual killer, as she freely admitted on the witness stand. Mr. Cooper was slain with a shotgun as he lay sound asleep about ten o’clock at night. He was a tenant farmer, and he and his daughter were the only occupants of his home. She had taken the shotgun from its accustomed…