Fletcher v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Bolivar county. Hon. W. A. Alcorn, Jr., Judge. Lewis Fletcher was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Instruction No. twelve requested for defendant should have been given, because the state' had wholly failed to meet the burden of proving the crime of murder in any of its constituent elements save the mere fact of the killing.
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Appeal from circuit court of Bolivar county. Hon. W. A. Alcorn, Jr., Judge. Lewis Fletcher was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Instruction No. twelve requested for defendant should have been given, because the state' had wholly failed to meet the burden of proving the crime of murder in any of its constituent elements save the mere fact of the killing. Self-defense was the defense interposed by this ^appellant, and we humbly submit that the defense is amply supported by the testimony of all .the witnesses, especially state’s witnesses Johnson and Lee, and the physical facts in this case,…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellant Avas convicted of the murder of T. C. Bullock, sentenced to suffer death, and from said judgment appeals.
The deceased, Bullock, Avas an assistant manager on the “Neblett” or “Virginia” plantation, said plantation being knoAArn by both names. The killing occurred in the latter part of December, 1920. Fletcher had been a tenant upon the premises, and had removed from the premises, the evening before the-killing. On the morning of the killing he had gone back to the place where the manager lived, near Avhich Avas a blacksmith shop. At the blacksmith shop he met Mr. Bullock, and…
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