Pratt v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

On the 7th day of June, 1909,, the grand jury of Stephens County returned an indictment against appellant charging him with the murder of one M: C. Barron by then and there shooting him with a gun. During the same month he was on trial, found guilty of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of thirty-five years.

The deceased, M. C. Barron, was a farmer living in Stephens County, and, according to the testimony, the owner of considerable lands in that county. He was a man in middle age or past, with a large family of…