Carter v. State

Appellants, Fred and Murray Carter, together with their father, J. W. Y. Carter, were indicted for murder in the killing of Robert McCain. Fred and Murray Carter were brothers, and Robert McCain was their brother-in-law, having married their sister. A severance was granted the father, and the two brothers, the appellants, were jointly tried, convicted by the jury of manslaughter, and sentenced by the court to serve a term of fifteen years in the state penitentiary. The parties to the' difficulty lived in the Kokomo neighborhood some distance from Columbia, Mississippi. On the afternoon of the…