State v. Jackson.

In the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Missouri, the appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment was assessed at death,

The appellant and the deceased, Daisy Esmond, both negroes, had been living together as man and wife in the city of Joplin, Missouri. On August 2, 1938, the deceased went to the home of her brother-in-law, Lester Ramson, and that night the appellant came to that place and tried to get her to go back to his home with him. On the next night, the appellant walked up to a screened door at Ramson’s house, pulled it open, and shot the deceased in the…