Adams v. State

The appellant, Garfield Adams, was indicted and tried for murder in the circuit court of Jefferson Davis county, and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted an appeal.

The facts upon which this conviction rests are substantially as follows: The appellant, Garfield Adams, the deceased, "Willie Norwood, and two companions, all negro boys between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years, were proceeding along a settlement road on Sunday afternoon. After they had traveled some distance from the starting…