Williams v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the murder of George Willie McGill, alias Ab McGill, and awarded a life sentence in the penitentiary.

The State’s case, in brief, is that appellant and his wife had been hired by W. C. Kirkpatrick as cotton pickers. They occupied and slept in a room of a house occupied by another negro named Burton, Appellant was a poor man and had nothing in the way of finances when Kirkpatrick employed him. Kirkpatrick had to supply him with bedding and necessary matters before appellant would agree to work for him. Kearly all of the money arising from…