Draper v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in the circuit court of Garland County of murder in the first degree for hilling Tom Menser in March, 1935, and the death penalty was imposed by the jury, from which judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

The chief witness for the State was Boy House, the accomplice of appellant, who testified, in substance, that he and appellant entered into an agreement on Friday night to rob Tom Menser, who resided on highway 70, some nineteen or twenty miles west of Hot Springs; that they stopped about a mile and a quarter before…