Oliver v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

*223The offense is murder; the punishment, 5 years.

From the testimony of Harvey Holland, Alice Faye Emerson and Roberta Holland we learn that they, together with deceased, had attended a Negro picnic and dance; that on the way home, after they passed through the city of Bells, on the road to Whitewright an automobile containing two white men pulled up beside deceased’s automobile, and a shot was fired; that the deceased brought his automobile to a halt, and the white man’s car stopped behind it; that one of the white men said, “Why in the Hell didn’t you stop ?”; and that the…