State v. . Evans

There is evidence on behalf of the State tending to show that on the afternoon of 12 June, 1929, the prisoner, Eay Evans, a colored man, shot and killed ~W. D. Smith, a township constable of Eichmond County, while the latter was attempting to arrest the former or to prevent his forcible escape from custody. The officer had a warrant for one Lander Ingram, and, in looking for him, stopped, at the home of Lula Belle Mitchell to inquire as to where Ingram lived. While obtaining this information, the deceased saw the defendant run out of the back door of Lula Belle Mitchell’s house, with some…