Beckwith v. State

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling motions to quash information and discharge defendant.

On December 12, 1954, Mrs. Sue Helen Fuller was killed in Monroe County during a burglary. Appellant Paul Louis Beckwith was one of forty to sixty persons taken into custody the day of the murder. After being held in jail for over a week, appellant and the others were released when one Willingham confessed to the crime. (Willingham was later released and charges against him dropped when, according to the prosecuting attorney’s testimony, it was discovered that…