Bradley v. State

Henry Bradley, Bill Brankley, and three others were jointly charged with the murder of Jim Wright. The two first-named defendants were jointly tried, and were convicted of murder, with a recommendation that they be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The case as made by the State showed that Jim Wright, the deceased, on the night previous to the homicide, shot into a crowd of negroes with a gun, and hit several of them. The next morning the defendants on trial, and others, Armed themselves and hunted up Wright. They discovered him in a swamp near the railroad track, and…