Williams v. State

The defendant was indicted for murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The killing with a shotgun took place at the home of J. C. Williams, who was the father of the defendant, Tommie Williams. J. C. Williams had entertained all Saturday night with a fish (mullet) supper, and the shooting took place near daylight Sunday morning. The crowd attending the supper was estimated to have been between twenty-five and fifty persons. Liquor was being sold out of a jug at the house, and a card game was in progress near the east end of the house by the light of a kerosene rag sticking out of…