State v. Prigett

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

A jury found Freddie Prigett, appellant herein, guilty of murder in the second degree. The Court, under the Second Offender Law, fixed the punishment at imprisonment for a term of twenty years. This appeal followed.

A jury reasonably could find from the evidence that after appellant had engaged in a dice game with Clinton Pierce an argument occurred when appellant desired to quit the game and thought he had fifty cents in change due him. Pierce produced a switch-blade knife and chased appellant across the street. Appellant then obtained a bedpost and returned to the…