CATES, Judge.
Strickland was convicted in the Chambers Circuit Court of second degree murder for shooting Mrs. Bessie Catherine Crenshaw with a pistol. The jury fixed his punishment at twenty years' imprisonment. He appeals from both the judgment of conviction and the order denying a new trial.
The principal questions raised are: (1) Was Strickland in double jeopardy because of a prior conviction of murdering Mrs. Crenshaw's fourteen year old son, Charles...
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