Smith v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The evidence in this case, without dispute, discloses that Doc Ezell, the deceased named in the indictment, was shot and killed on the night of April 14, 1937, and that said shooting occurred at or near a place owned and run by one Jeff Crowell, colored, and that on the occasion in question a large crowd of negroes were assembled at a fish supper, and for other amusements.

At the Fall Term 1937 of the circuit court of Choctaw County, the Grand Jury returned an indictment in which it was charged that the three named defendants, towit: Henry Smith, John Hynde, alias…