Brown v. State

BOULDIN, Justice.

Appellant, Henry Brown, was indicted for the murder of Sylvia Russell by stab bing her with a knife. On his trial the accused was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death.

The witnesses for the State, some of them testifying as eye-witnesses, gave evidence of a vicious and gruesome killing. The defendant’s witnesses tended to show a quarrel between defendant and deceased growing out of ugly talk which defendant claimed deceased had spread about him, leading to a fight in which deceased struck or attempted to strike the first blow.

Admittedly…