Clingham v. State

Appellant, charged by information with the crime of mnrder in the first degree, for the killing of Roy Curtis, was tried before a jury and found guilty of the offense charged. From judgment of the lower court imposing the death penalty in accordance with the jury’s verdict he prosecutes this appeal.

The evidence discloses that appellant, a negro, on the night of February 5, 1944, at the home of his sister in West Memphis, where he was living at the time, became involved in a quarrel with James Webber, another negro who was visiting appellant’s sister. Leaving his sister’s house appellant went…