Pope v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree, under an indictment charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by cutting and stabbing one Newt Nelson with a knife.

One of the errors assigned for the reversal of the judgment is that the testimony is insufficient to support' a conviction for murder in any degree. This assignment of error may be answered by giving the version of the killing which Charles Anderson detailed to the jury. According to this witness, he and deceased were covering a house, when appellant walked up to…