Israel v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

Upon the trial of this case in the lower court, the crime charged in the indictment, and for which this appellant was convicted, was proved without dispute or conflict. The defendant insisted that he was not the person who committed the offense. This controversy presents the paramount and controlling question on this appeal. That is to say, the identity of the person who committed the crime.

Clifford Jordan, the injured party, testified that on the night of July 22, 1948, and at 25 minutes to three o’clock two white men came to his house and knocked on his door; that…