Jones v. State

WILLSON, Judge.

The conviction is for murder in the second degree, and is based mainly upon the admissions made by the defendant soon after the homicide. He stated, in substance, that he killed the deceased, but that he killed him in self-defense. There was no evidence adduced "by the State directly contradicting the statement of defendant that he killed the deceased in self-defense. Some slight circumstances were proved by the State tending to show that the homicide was actuated by malice -and negativing the theory of self-defense, but it can not be said that defendant’s claim of self-defense…