Strickland v. State

Burdette Strickland was convicted of murder, for the killing of Ed Daniel, and excepted to the refusal of a new trial. On the trial it appeared that a crowd of negroes and several white men were assembled at night near the door of a tent under which a show was in progress. The accused, a negro, and' the deceased, a white man, were in the crowd. According to the evidence for the State, the deceased approached the accused, who was talking to a negro woman, and asked them what they were talking about. She replied that she was asking the accused to pay her way into the show. Deceased laughed and…