Evans v. State

Lindsey Evans, Hoyt Evans, Carter Jones, Carter Wilson, and C. L. Smith were jointly indicted for the offense of murder, the indictment charging that the accused, on September 17, 1927, with a certain shotgun did shoot one Lee Cape “in the head, face, neck, and body, thereby inflicting a certain mortal wound and certain mortal wounds, from which he, the said Lee Cape, then and there died.” Hoyt Evans, one of the defendants, was placed alone on trial, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court; and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.…