Andrews v. State

The defendant in this case was charged with the offense of murder. The homicide out of which this charge grew was the result of an altercation between the deceased, who was pitching in a game of baseball at the time the altercation arose, and the accused, who was the umpire in the game. A dispute arose between the two, when the deceased, Curtis Cason, charged Henry Andrews, the umpire, with unfairness in passing upon the question as-to whether the balls delivered by the pitcher were “strikes” or “balls.” The accused seemed to have been highly incensed at certain language applied to him by the…