James v. State

MORROW, Judge.

—The deceased, Claude Whitehead, was called to the door of his dwelling early on the morning of the fourteenth day of June, and shot to death by some person who used an automatic shotgun loaded with buckshot. The wife of deceased testified that immediately after her husband was shot, she ran to the door and on the gallery", and saw a man with a gun in his hands whom she identified as the appellant. The State introduced other testimony to the effect that on the day preceding the homicide the appellant had been called before the Federal Draft Board in response to a notice that…