State v. Justice

Woods, PresideNt:

Tbe defendant, Mat Justice, -was indicted upon a charge of killing one Joe Daniels. Tbe jury found bim guilty of murder in the second degree, and now he prosecutes this writ from the judgment entered thereon.

The shooting occurred late Sunday afternoon, the 26th day of June, 1927,. along the N. & W. Railway, between Lindsey and Glen Alum, Mingo county, and within a few hundred yards of defendant’s dwelling, which is located just across Tug River in Kentucky. Joe Daniels, together with his wife and children had been staying at the home of the defendant for approximately two…