Taylor v. State

C. T. Taylor was indicted and tried for the crime of murder. The testimony disclosed that the deceased, W. R. Yeal, and the defendant were bitter enemies, and that, for a period of about three months prior to the homicide, each was anticipating and was prepared for a deadly encounter. On the'day of the homicide, Yeal, while riding along a public road in a buggy with a negro driver, was stopped by another negro who had been working for him and who asked that he might see him on a matter of business. Yeal got out of his buggy and went a short distance out on the side of the road, stopping by an…