Kennedy v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The defendant, appellant here, was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

The State’s theory of the case, as appears from the record, was that on the day of the difficulty in which the defendant stabbed the deceased with a pocket knife, the defendant, the deceased, John Denson, and Nick Peevee, the brother-in-law of the defendant, all negroes, went to the house of John Trammell, sat on the back porch and talked for considerable time, an hour or more, that some of them especially Peevee was considerably under the…