Sanders v. State

LAWSON, Justice.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree.

The defendant, Henry Sanders, was tried on an indictment charging murder in the first degree, and was convicted by the jury of murder in the second degree, and his punishment was fixed at forty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

That the defendant shot Alf Arnold, the deceased, with a pistol and that Arnold died as a result thereof is without dispute. The defendant pleaded self-defense.

Several persons who witnessed the shooting, and the officers who arrived at the scene shortly thereafter, testified for the…