Cook v. State

The brief of evidence in the present case discloses that a colored man named Joe Tankersly lived alone in a house which contained a large room and a shed-room. On the night of the 1st day of February, 1901, this house was consumed hy fire. In the early morning of the next day, the dead body of an adult human being was found amid the ruins of the shed-room. A pool of blood was discovered on the ground in front of the door of the house, and drops of hlood were traced up to the very place where the door had been situated. Jack Cook, another colored man, was indicted for and convicted of the…