Morris v. State

Bichard Morris was indicted jointly with Bichard Sims and Tom White, alias Mose White, for the alleged murder of Frank C. Foster. Upon a separate trial Bichard Morris was convicted without a recommendation, and the death sentence was imposed. The defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

The evidence for the State tended to show that the three defendants named with another man by the name of Harold White entered a store in the City of Atlanta for the purpose of committing a robbery, and that Foster, a police officer who was in the store at the time, sought to interfere…