Blackwell v. State

The appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the circuit court of De Soto county for the murder of one W.C. Belote, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The killing occurred on the 8th of April, 1930, and both the appellant and the deceased lived at Lakeview in said county.

It appears from the testimony that Belote, the deceased, had directed a negro to bring some lumber from the bank of the lake up to the store of Belote not far distant from the lake, and that the negro reported that Blackwell ordered him not to carry the lumber, and that thereupon Belote…