McCoy v. State

The indictment in this case charges Gertrude White and Sambo McCoy with committing murder by shooting Willie May Leggett with a pistol. Gertrude White pleaded guilty and received a life sentence. Sambo McCoy elected to sever, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The exception is to the judgment overruling McCoy’s motion for a new trial, containing only the usual general grounds.

The evidence shows conclusively that Gertrude White shot and killed Willie May Leggett with Sambo McCoy’s pistol at about ten o’clock at night in one “Sissy’s” yard, where several negroes had assembled. John…