Moore v. State

Appellant was convicted in the circuit court of Union county of the murder of J. W. Coleman; and from this conviction and a sentence to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, this appeal was prosecuted.

The deceased was assassinated, in the nighttime, while he was seated in the office of the depot of the Gulf, Mobile, & Northern Railroad Company, at New Albany, Miss., having been shot through a glass window. The physical facts and evidence clearly indicated that when the assassin fired the fatal shot he was standing near the north end of a platform located a few feet east of the window…