Williams v. State

LAWSON, Justice.

The appellant, Charles Yf. Williams, was tried in the circuit court of Shelby County under an indictment charging that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Frank Swalley, alias John Franklin Swalley, alias John Frank Swalley, by shooting him with a gun or pistol. The jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree and fixed punishment at life, imprisonment in the penitentiary. Judgment was in accord with the verdict. His. motion for a new trial having been denied and overruled, Williams appealed to this court.

The deceased lived with his wife and four…