Keith v. State

In this case plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to a term of *42twenty years in the State penitentiary, for killing one L. E. Smithson, to reverse which judgment he has appealed to this court. We are fully satisfied of his guilt .under the facts as proven in the record, and that all .of the errors assigned are without merit.

In the present opinion we shall refer to only one of the law points involved. There was evidence introduced on the trial, which was treated by counsel on both sides, and by the trial judge, and by both counsel here, as a putting in…