Hurd v. State

In the circuit court of the Second district of Hinds county the appellant, Lester Hurd, was convicted of murder,' and sentenced to be hanged, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

To establish the guilt of the appellant the state first offered the testimony of two negroes, Eoosevelt Kichardson and Walter Johnson, who testified, in substance, that just before dark on the day of the killing they boarded an east-bound freight train of the Alabama &• Vicksburg’ Eaihvay Company just as it was leaving the Vicksburg yards; that shortly thereafter this appellant and two…