Jones v. State

The appellant, Sidney Jones, was convicted in the circuit court of Humphreys county of the murder of Charley Harper, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and from this conviction and sentence this appeal was prosecuted.

Tbe facts necessary to be stated are substantially as follows : For some weeks prior to the shooting, the appellant had been living with a woman named Sarah White, who had previously been intimate with the deceased. On the afternoon of the shooting, appellant and Sarah White came to Isola together. After* reaching there, they separated, and Sarah White proceeded to the…