Vincent v. State

BOULDIN, Justice.

Appellant, Wesley Vincent; and his companion, Richard F. Darrafou, were indicted for the murder of F. J. Harris. They elected to be tried jointly, and were each convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at death.

The killing was at the Pickwick Night Club in Birmingham, where the deceased, a police officer, in official uniform, was on duty, on the occasion of the President’s birthday ball, the night of January 30, 1935.

Without dispute the killing was in the attempted perpetration of a robbery. The state’s evidence from eyewitnesses was to the effect…