State v. Lindsey

Appellant, upon a separate trial in the Circuit Court of Boone County, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. His punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. From the sentence and judgment he appealed. The charge of murder in the first degree was lodged by a joint indictment against appellant, Ola Lindsey and Floyd Brown, Roy Stephens and Norris Stephens for the death of Omar Cook who was beaten with a stick of wood and an iron stove shaker in the county jail of Boone County at Columbia on November 30, 1931. Appellant, Lindsey, and Floyd Brown, Norris Stephens…