Agnew v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant, a negro man, was jointly indicted with Vena- Mae Pendley, a white woman, for the offense of miscegenation.

A severance was granted in the court below, and this appellant’s trial resulted in a verdict and judgment of guilty.

The evidence presented by the State in the trial below tended to show that the appellant and his wife lived in close proximity to Vena Mae Pendley and her husband. The Pendley family obtained water from appellant’s well.

Numerous State witnesses testified that on various occasions in the fall of 1949 and spring of 1950 they had seen the…