Lippold v. State

Russell R. Lippold and Patricia Ann Kerley Gregg were charged by indictment with the first degree murder of Lester Gordon Mullins by shooting him with a gun. Because the appellant was fourteen years of age at the time of the incident in question, the Circuit Court heard a motion to transfer the cause to the Juvenile Court, and after a determination in that court of incorrigibility the cause was then transferred to the Circuit Court for trial as an adult. The jury found the appellant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The trial…