State v. Story

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

Convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, the appellant, Jimmy Story, appeals to this court, first challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. Specifically, he contends that the proof showed that he acted in self-defense and also that there was no proof of premeditation.

In the early evening of June 10,1978, the appellant, age 22, and Walker Bryan Reece, age 61, drove from Waverly in Reece’s brown Mustang automobile on a country road to a place where the appellant shot Reece three or more times with a .25…