Goins v. State

Gould, Associate Justice.

On the morning of October 3,1873,before daylight, William Heese was killed by some one who had burglariously entered his storehouse at Bound Top, in Fayette county. The appellant was tried under an indictment charging him with this murder, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. The leading question in the case is, whether the evidence sufficiently identifies the defendant as the murderer, and, as growing out of that, whether his application for a new trial should have been granted.

We have given the evidence and…