Jones v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and given a life sentence.

The evidence of this case is not as cogent as some cases of this character passed upon on appeal, yet,-there is in our opinion, enough to warrant us in concluding that the jury were correct in their finding.

Appellant was in the neighborhood of the homicide, had made threats against the deceased; deceased was a witness against him in a hog-stealing case. Appellant was seen the night of the homicide, and after the killing should have occurred, with a shotgun at what the witnesses term an “infair.” This gun was…