State v. Archie

On August 15, 1922, the Prosecuting Attorney of New Madrid County, Missouri, filed in the circuit court of said county an information, charging Walter A. Archie with murder in the first degree, for the killing of one J.H. Sharp, in said county, on July 8, 1922. Upon a trial before a jury, defendant was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at twenty years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were filed, overruled, sentence pronounced, and judgment rendered, from which defendant appealed to this court.

The testimony…