Wiggins v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of fifteen years.

The specific charge upon which he was tried and convicted was the murder of George Treece, sheriff of St. Clair county.

The testimony upon which the state relied for a conviction was, in essential substance, as given principally by its witness Marshall Owens, as follows:

Treece, the dead man, was sheriff of St. Clair county; Owens, the witness, was a deputy sheriff, under him.

On the night of April 8, 1931, at somewhere between 9 and 10…