Dredd v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant, who was forty-five years of age and a man of good character in the community where he had lived for eighteen years, was a watchman at the filling station of and employed by Fred Thigpen. Early Cook, the dead man, had, with others, on Wednesday night before the homicide committed a burglary on the residence of Fred Thigpen and stolen from the house some several hundred dollars worth of personal property. On being surprised in the house by Thigpen, several burglars who were in the house ran over him and made their escape, and, as they were running away, one of them…