Wilson v. State

Mobile street, in the city of Hattiesburg, is crossed by the Mississippi Central Railroad tracks in a thickly settled and well built-up section of the city on both sides of the tracks along said street. Immediately alongside the railroad tracks and across said street is a path which pedestrians were and are accustomed to use. About five forty-five p. m. on Saturday, December 15, 1934, Mr. Russie Holmes, an employee of a near-by industrial plant, working at night, was on his way to his work, and was using this path alongside the railroad track. When he reached Mobile street and a point about…