Walker v. State

Defendant, Isom Walker, appellant here, was convicted of murder ánd sentenced to the penitentiary for life. We quote the following facts: On the morning of the homicide, the defendant went to the home of Mr. Wilson and requested that he telephone the sheriff that a dead man was lying in the road about two hundred or three hundred yards from appellant’s home. The witness Bales responded to this call, and to this witness the defendant made the following statement:

“ ‘When I met him I didn’t give him any show at all.’ He pointed to a tree down the road; he says, ‘He begin to reach like he was…