Lanier v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charges murder in the second degree. From a judgment of conviction for said offense, with a penitentiary sentence of eleven years, defendant appeals.

The evidence shows without dispute that Wilson Lanier killed Arthur Thomas by shooting him with a pistol. Defendant claimed self defense.

State’s witness Willie James Jones testified that about 7:30 Georgia time, March *58713, 1964, he and Arthur Thomas were in his mother’s yard when defendant and Chester Seldon went next door to Jones’ brother’s house in Lanier’s car. Witness and Thomas walked to his brother’s…