Jenkins v. State

Reid, Chief Justice.

Late in the afternoon of January 7, 1938, T. W. Adcock was shot in the back with a shotgun. He died several hours later at Grady Hospital in the City of Atlanta, where he had been carried for medical attention. The scene of the shooting was in a small grocery store operated by the deceased on Laurel Avenue a short distance from the intersection of that street and West View Drive. The State accused four negroes, Jimmie Lee Gibbs, Oscar Morgan, J. P. Grant, and Willie Jenkins, of murdering Adcock. Jenkins was placed on trial, and was convicted without recommendation. He…