Jackson v. State

Conviction for murder in the first degree for killing Ed Smith.

The theory of the State was that, on account of bad feeling due to previous controversies, thé plaintiffs in error conspired together to take the life of the deceased, and that on the afternoon of the homicide they stopped the deceased and engaged him in a fight in which the plaintiff in error, Hobart Jackson, stabbed him to death.

On the other hand, the insistence of the plaintiffs in error is that the deceased stopped of his own volition, and, with a drawn knife, attacked Robert Jackson when Hobart Jackson, in defense of the life…