Taylor v. State

The appellant, Jim Taylor, was indicted and tried for murder, and was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the penitentiary, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

The deceased was shot at a negro picnic at Boone Lake near Brandon, in Rankin county. Two eyewitnesses testified that the appellant shot the deceased, and the testimony for the state, if believed, makes a case of deliberate and unprovoked murder. The defense offered was an alibi; several witnesses testifying that the appellant was not at the picnic at the time of the…