Davis v. State

PRICE, Judge..

The appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, under an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. Plis punishment was fixed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Appellant’s brother, Howard Davis, alias Samp Davis, was tried previously and found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution for the killing of C. L. Prince. This appellant was tried as an accomplice to that murder.

The facts and circumstances surrounding the killing of Mr. Prince are fully set out by the Supreme Court in Samp Davis case [Davis v.…