Greenway v. State

Worth Greenway and his brother, Woodward Greenway, were jointly indicted for the murder of Mart Hicks. Worth Greenway was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and to the overruling of his motion for new trial as amended he excepted.

Joe Hicks, son of the deceased and the only witness for the State who saw the transaction in question, testified on direct examination that he, his sister, and her husband, Woodward Greenway, were sitting in the yard of Woodward Greenway cracking walnuts, and “Worth [the defendant] come up in the yard and was standing there, and daddy come down the road and asked…