Williams v. State

The undisputed testimony in this case shows that appellant, Virgil Williams, and another man shot Neil McDermott, a policeman, while they were engaged in robbing George Chance, and that nine days later McDermott died from the effects of this wound. Upon his trial under an indictment charging him with the crime of murder committed in the perpetration of a robbery, appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and given a sentence of death, and has prosecuted this áppeal to reverse the judgment on account of the errors of the trial court in admitting certain incompetent testimony over…