State v. Williams

Defendant, having been convicted upon a charge of shooting with the intent to kill, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, presents his case to this court upon a bill of exception reserved to the overruling of a motion for new trial, as follows: The motion alleges that defendant was convicted on the testimony of Howard Hagens who did not see the shooting; of Will Jones, Oscar Sanders, and Dennis Ewell, who did not see the shooting and testified to no material facts; of Francis Jones, who testified that defendant went out of the church with a pistol in his hand, though he did not see the…