State v. Penney

1 *6952 *693Tbe greater portion of the argument made on behalf of defendant is devoted to an attempt to show that the evidence does not support the verdict. The facts, as the jury were warranted in finding them, may be summed up as follows: All the parties concerned were colored men, who were engaged in grading for a railway that was being built through Emmet county. They came from southern states, and had been at work but a few weeks when the homicide occurred. While at work they lived in a camp established by the contractor, one Campbell, in whose employ they were, and which was some three miles…