Lee v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of Wayne county for the murder of one William Dixon, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to he hanged. From this judgment he has appealed, and asks a reversal.

The facts are as follows;

In the late afternoon of Wednesday, the 25th of September, 1907, William Dixon disappeared from his home, on “Double Branches,” in Wayne county, carrying with him a single-barrel, breech-loading shotgun. *523On the following Saturday, about 12 o’clock, bis body was found in tbe woods, about three-quarters of a mile from bis home, with a…