Cofer v. State

Cook, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.-

The appellant, Ellerson Gofer, was indicted jointly with Floyd Carr, Lee Cofer, Fred Hamilton, and Glenn Davis for the murder of one J. IT. Pruitt. There was a severance and separate trial of the appellant, -which resulted in a conviction and sentence to life imprisonment iii the state penitentiary, from which this appeal was prosecuted.

This appeal is from a second conviction of the appellant, the former conviction having been reversed because of the admission in evidence of certain shotgun shells unlawfully seized in the search of the appellant’s…