State v. Lewis

WILLIAMS, C.

Defendant, under an information charging him with murder in the first degree, for shooting to death -with a pistol one James Edsell, on August 6, 1911, was, at the March term, 1912, of the circuit court of Washington county, convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary. He appeals from the judgment.

The substantive facts brought out by the State’s evidence are about as follows:

The shooting occurred between seven and eight o’clock, p. m., on Sunday, August 6, 1911, near the east front of the Providence Baptist church…