MacKlin v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Polk County for the murder of one Jack Darden. He was tried and on December 10th last was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.

The facts show briefly that appellant had married a great niece of the deceased, Jack Darden. Jack Darden was a very old negro man, something like 80 or 85 years of age. He was killed about seven or eight o’clock on the evening of March 29, 1907. He was shot through an open window while sitting by his fireside in his cabin parching and eating peanuts, the whole…