People v. Pursley

The plaintiff in error, Frequette Pursley, was convicted in the city court of DuQuoin of murder and was sentenced to death. He has sued out a writ of error to review the record.

The homicide occurred on December 8, 1920, in'the shop of the Blakeslee Manufacturing Company, in the city of DuQuoin. The plaintiff in error is a negro, twenty years old. He had been working for the Blakeslee Manufacturing Company about two months. He was the only colored man among the fifteen or twenty employees of the company. Eugene Watson, the deceased, was a machinist, twenty-two years old, who had been in the…