State v. Morris

Bussey, Justice.

The defendants-appellants were tried jointly; the appellant John Morris being convicted of the murder of one Martha Green Roof, and the appellant Edward Williams being convicted as accessory before the fact to the same murder. The verdict of the jury as to both appellants was guilty, without any recommendation of mercy, and both appellants, in accordance with the law of this state, were sentenced to death by electrocution.

The facts fully established by the evidence including the confessions of the appellants, are as follows: John Morris, allegedly 76 years of age at the time…