Freeman v. State

The appellant, Lincoln Freeman, was tried and convicted at the August 1955 Term of the Circuit Court of Marshall County on a charge of murder in the killing of O. T. Holt, and was sentenced by the court to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the term of his natural life. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The killing- occurred sometime after midnight on July 24, 1954, at a picnic for members of the colored race on the Levi Bell farm, a few miles northwest of the City of Holly Springs. The picnic was attended by several hundred members of the colored race. The record does not…