Boxley v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge. —

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at death.

On the night of May 2, 1924, while in his house and lying upon the bed, Tom Coleman, a negro man, was killed by the discharge of a shotgun which was fired from the outside of the house and through the screen door. The appellant, a negro thirty-three years of age, was the stepson of the deceased. Some months before the death of the deceased, a policy of insurance had been issued upon his life at the instance of the appellant, who was named as the beneficiary. The policy was an accident and health policy for the maximum…