Raysor v. State

Ed Eaysor was convicted of the murder of G. M. Kirkland. The homicide occurred about dusk on the afternoon of March 18, 1908. Late in the afternoon of that day a negro man, a stranger in the community, was arrested for misplacing a switch on the railroad near the station of Kingsland, in Camden county. He was carried before a magistrate, bound over to answer the offense of carrying a concealed weapon, and committed to< the custody of the deceased. The deceased took the person in his custody to an artesian well, and while the deceased was drinking water, the man in his custody suddenly…