Talbert v. State

On an indictment for murder in the killing of Jesse Lewis, appellant was tried, convicted, and sentenced to he hanged by the lower court, and appeals here.

In August, 1934, Meadow Pressgrove, a white man, carried a truckload of twenty-one negro men from Minter City to Lambert on .Sunday afternoon to engage in a game of baseball. They lost the game, and returned Minter City. It was after dark when they reached what the witnesses called Shoe Bridge railroad crossing. Two of the witnesses, who were in the truck at the time, testified that they saw the appellant and a woman standing on the side of…