Lewis v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

Appellant was a brakeman upon a railroad, running into the town of Somervelle. Other employees of the road, white people, resented the fact that negroes were permitted to work as bralcemen on said road. Deceased and various others made threats against such negroes. These threats were known and communicated to defendant. On the evening of the homicide, as appellant came into the town where the killing occurred, his train was stopped at a side…