McGee v. State

This case involves the shooting by Henry McGee of Elmer Thomas. After his conviction by a jury of murder in the second degree, McGee appealed from a judgment and sentence of ten years and, in this Court, presses contentions as to the insufficiency of the evidence, an error in the charge, and the refusal of the trial judge to ask the jurors on voir dire questions requested by him.

Henry McGee, his brother James, and their friend Brown, had an argument in the men’s room of a tavern with Tyler, one of a group of friends who were together in the place. Brown claimed Tyler had stepped on his foot.…