Williams v. State

On a day of October, 1880, Calvin Williams, a colored man, disappeared from his home in Drew ■county.

On the 4th of June, 1883, Charles Allstock was breaking up a piece of newly cleared land, a quarter of a mile from Calvin’s house, which was an old deadening and dense ■thicket when he disappeared, and turned up an old shoe with his plow, which contained some foot bones of a man5> and on looking down where the shoe came from, he discovered the ankle bones of a man projecting out into the furrow, Some of the neighbors were sent for, and among them a magistrate. They dug up the ground, and in a…