Huggins v. State

At the August, 1927, term of the circuit court of Lauderdale county, the appellant, Eugene Huggins, and one Marion Walton were jointly indicted for the murder of J. J. McCarty. There was a severance and a separate trial of the two defendants, and the appellant was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecutes this appeal.

The deceased was shot and killed by Marion Walton; and the appellant was convicted for the murder as a co-conspirator, the theory of the state being that these two defendants went to the store of the deceased, McCarty, for the…