Brown v. State

The appellants, Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Yank Ellington, were convicted of murder in the circuit court of Kemper county and were sentenced to be hanged, and from this conviction and sentence this appeal was prosecuted.

Raymond Stewart lived alone in a small farm house in Kemper county. On Friday, March 30, 1934, neighbors of the said Stewart discovered him lying unconscious in a side room of his house. In this room there was a pile of cotton seed near the body, and there was an open tool chest with blood on it in this room or an adjoining hall. Blood was also sprinkled on certain parts of…