Hamburg v. State

L. A. Smith, Sr. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant was jointly indicted with others for the murder of Mr. Emmett Buckley. He obtained a severance, was tried and convicted, and sentenced to electrocution. Upon appeal here he assigns several errors, but we discuss only those assignments which we consider serious enough to merit discussion.

Mr. Buckley, a State Senator, was walking to his home in Enterprise late at night, when appellant, and some other young men passed him in a truck, as he was passing-over a long bridge spanning the Cliickasawhay River. At the instigation of…