Fortenberry v. State

A sufficient statement of the facts, composed by taking the testimony of the prosecuting witness as true and sup plementing it with those portions of the testimony in behalf of the defendants which are undisputed, is as follows:

A young negro named John T. Alexander was whipped by some white men on the morning of July 3, 1940. The report of this occurrence reached his mother and other relatives who lived in McOomb, about twelve miles distant. A party of five or six negroes who were relatives of the boy, or close friends, departed that afternoon in two automobiles from MoComb to go in search of…