Roberts v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in-, the first degree for the killing of Kyle-Young on Easter Sunday afternoon, April' 13, 1952, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The shooting occurred at the home of appellant about, eight miles from Dadeville. That afternoon, around 1:30, a telephone call was. made to the jail at Dadeville by Mrs. IreneYarbrough, a sister of Mrs. Fulton Roberts, (her husband being a son of appellant). Mrs. Yarbrough sought to speak to the-sheriff, but he was not available and there was no one in the sheriff’s office, so she had her…