Lesieurs v. State

Fred Lesieurs was indicted for murder in the first degree charged to have been committed by shooting Tom Euss. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment, and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. To reverse the judgment and sentence imposed upon him, the defendant has duly prosecuted an appeal to this court.

According to the undisputed evidence, Fred Lesieurs shot Tom Euss with a pistol in the town of Truman, Poinsett County, Arkansas, in July, 1925, and Euss died as the result of his wounds in a very short…