State v. Davis

OVERTON, Justice.

Defendants were tried and convicted ■ of the crime of robbery, and sentenced to the penitentiary. They rely on eight bills of exception for a reversal.

A brief outline of the facts-of the case will serve, perhaps, to give a better understanding of the bills of exception to be reviewed. The evidence shows that the two defendants are white men. The men that they are convicted of robbing are negroes, two in number, named Lonnie Williams and James Marshall. The accused and their victims were whisky runners. The negx’oes were hauling a load of whisky in an automobile, on the night…