Jones v. State

The appellant, J. M. Jones, was indicted and convicted of the murder of A. Kellis Rogers, and from said conviction appeals.

The deceased, Rogers, and the appellant, Jones, lived in the village of Plantersville, on the Frisco Railroad, in Lee county. In October, 1921, the deceased was found near a pile of lumber close to the railroad enbankment in Plantersville in an unconscious condition. A blow had *699been struck on bis bead, and blood bad formed in tbe dirt where be was lying, and a stick was found by tbe body. Tbe sheriff of tbe county had passed through tbe village between five and…