Strickland v. State

CATES, Judge.

Strickland was convicted in the Chambers Circuit Court of second degree murder for shooting Mrs. Bessie Catherine Crenshaw with a pistol. The jury fixed his punishment at twenty years’ imprisonment. He appeals from both the judgment of *415conviction and the order denying a new trial.

The principal questions raised are: (1) Was Strickland in double jeopardy because of a prior conviction of murdering Mrs. Crenshaw’s fourteen year old son, Charles Gordon, (2) were his requested charges 28, 29, 32 and 33 rightly refused, and (3) was the State entitled to offer testimony of civil…