State v. Burks

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant, Finnon Burks, was jointly indicted with Annie Beatrice Henry for the murder of J. P. Calloway but was tried separately, his co-principal having been granted a severance, and from his conviction and sentence to hang he prosecutes this appeal.

It appears that Burks and Mrs. Henry, in order to carry out a preconceived plan to rob a bank, held up the deceased, with whom they had obtained a ride while hitchhiking, and that, after he had been robbed of his worldly goods and his car — his clothing having been removed in order to delay pursuit in the event his body was…