Ware v. State

Appellant, Gustean Ware, a negro woman, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Eanlrin county of the murder of John Henry Holyfield, a negro boy about eighteen years of age, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. From this judgment, she prosecutes this appeal.

The homicide took place at night on the back porch of a negro dance hall. Olne eyewitness, William Thomas, testified to what occurred between appellant and deceased at the time of the killing. His testimony, if true, proved that appellant was guilty of murder. There was other evidence, circumstantial in character,…