Hartfield v. State

From a conviction on a charge of murder and sentence of death, this appeal is prosecuted.

The appellant, Jack Hartfield, who was serving a life term in the state penitentiary, and who had been a trusty there for more than ten years, accompanied the Superintendent, as chauffeur of his automobile, on a trip to Jackson on March 22, 1938. On that evening, he met another life term convict, R. B. (Happy) Davis, who had been to Mobile, Alabama, serving as chauffeur of the traveling sergeant and assisting him to recapture an escaped convict. Hartfield and Davis had known two former convicts in the…