James v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder of John Kenny. Kenny was a white man, sixty years of age, whose occupation was that of track and bridge inspector on a tram road belonging to the Kirby Lumber Company, and extending from the town of Call in a northwesterly direction to Donohoo. He lived in a shack near the railroad, about eight miles from Donohoo, and some distance from Call. About four o’clock on the afternoon of October 2 his dead body, yet warm and bleeding, was found. near the tram road, about 250 yards from his place of residence. He had received a gunshot wound on the…