Irons v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The charge was murder in the first degree. Conviction was for murder in the second degree with punishment fixed at ten years in the penitentiary.

It will serve no useful purpose to set out the evidence. Suffice it to say that defendant admitted he killed one Comack Oates by shooting him with a .22 Calibre rifle. The state’s evidence tended to prove-defendant guilty of murder. Defendant’s, testimony tended to show that he shot in-self defense.

Under the conflicting evidence the-question as to whether defendant was justified in killing deceased was for the jury. The…