State v. Park

The defendant, Harry Park, has appealed from a judgment of conviction of murder in the second degree on which he was sentenced to a term of twenty years and a day in the state penitentiary, and from an order denying him a new trial.

Harry Park, a Korean, shot and killed a fellow countryman, K. S. Paik, on October 29, 1929, in the presence of a third Korean, H. D. Hong, on a ranch near Whitehall, in Madison county. It is contended that he shot in self-defense and that the evidence most unfavorable to defendant, at most warranted a verdict of manslaughter.

Paik and Hong were partners in the…