State v. Williams

OPINION

By the Court,

Sanders, C. J.:

The defendant, W. F. Williams, was convicted of murder of the first degree for shooting one H. D. Kelly to death with an automatic Colt revolver, and was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life. The defendant appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial and from the judgment.

So far as necessary to a proper understanding of the numerous assignments of error relied upon for the reversal of the case, the following summary of the evidence will be sufficient.

At the time of the killing both the defendant and the…