Allen v. State

Grice, Justice.

Arnold B. Allen was indicted for the offense of murder. On the trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty, without a recommendation of mercy. The deceased was the defendant’s mother, with whom he lived. There was evidence to the following effect: The deceased was seen by several persons about four o’clock in the afternoon of March 22, 1938, in a condition which indicated that she had been horribly whipped, beaten, choked, and wounded about the head and face with some blunt instrument. While in that condition she was walking near her home, holding to a clothesline, and then…