Caesar v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Tip M. Simmons by cutting him with a knife.

The deceased had been employed by the proprietor of a negro dance hall to keep order. On the 17th of June, 1936, about 1 A. M., a dance was in progress at the hall and deceased was present pursuant to his employment. While he and the proprietor were talking some of the negroes engaged in a fight. Deceased immediately admonished them that fighting must cease. Mattie Richardson, who was…