Burns v. State

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

An indictment was returned against Osborne Newton, John Burns, Lonnie Lanier, and Aaron Nelson,, charging them with the murder of C. L. Daughtry by shooting him with a gun. On the separate trial of John Burns, his eodefendant Aaron Nelson testified as to a conspiracy between all of the defendants to rob Daughtry. The participation by Nelson was to get on the bumper of the automobile of Daughtry when he should slow up in passing over a bad bridge, and to ride along on the bumper, passing the co-conspirators who would be watching, and at a certain place Nelson was to…