Williams v. State

This appellant, a police officer of the town of Lineville, while on duty as such officer, shot and killed Hubert Morrow. He was thereafter indicted for murder in the first degree. His trial before a jury resulted in his conviction for manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The shooting occurred in the business section of Lineville late on a Saturday afternoon in May 1946. Numerous persons witnessed the occurrence, or parts thereof. The variety of the accounts of the affair given by these many witnesses results…