Graves v. State

Appellant was indicted in the Lincoln Circuit Court for murder in the first degree for killing Isaac Hartley. Upon trial of the charge he was convicted of murder in the second degree and adjudged to serve a term of twenty-one years in the State Penitentiary as punishment therefor. Prom the judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court. The killing occurred on the night of the 12th day of November, 1921, at Grady, in front of a drugstore conducted by Jim Taliaferro. Some hour or more before the killing, appellant, the constable of the township, who was drinking to…