Mims v. State

Jenkins, Justice.

Will Mims was found guilty without a recommendation, of the murder of Dave E. Mitchell. The testimony for the State showed that the defendant and a woman with whom he had been living engaged in an argument in a city street; that the deceased said something as to the defendant cursing on the street; and after some altercation in which the hat of the defendant was *703knocked off, the deceased went down the street, and the defendant followed him. The defendant was under the influence of liquor, and there was some evidence to indicate that the deceased was in a similar condition.…