Davis v. State

Robert Lee Davis, Henry Davis, and Monroe Jones were jointly convicted in the superior court of Jeff Davis County, at the adjourned September term, 1938, upon the charge that the defendants “unlawfully and with force and arms; did remove from a certain grave in Morgan’s Ohappel Colored Cemetery, the body of Allen Hodge, wantonly and feloniously, contrary to the laws of said State, the good order, peace, and dignity thereof.” The defendants demurred to the indictment on the grounds that it did not charge any crime, or the removal of the body of a human being, or such body from a grave or other…