Thurmond v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder. The jury saw fit to impose the extreme penalty.

The following facts may be accepted as without dispute. Appellant had been drinking steadily throughout the afternoon preceding the homicide. During the evening and up until the early hours of the following morning, he and his companions had traveled in his truck back and forth between several ‘ ‘ night clubs ’ ’ at which intoxicating liquors were bought and drunk. The last spot visited was the store of J. W. Willis. It was here that the homicide occurred.

The victim was C. G. McGough, the town…