Milligan v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Murder is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The evidence relied upon is circumstantial. The appellant is a negro. The deceased, a negro woman, was the wife of Allan Parks. Her home and that of the appellant were about three or four hundred yards distant from each other. On the morning of the 20th day of July, the body of the deceased was discovered by her husband at a point near his residence. According to his testimony, before finding the body, he discovered a place about twenty-five steps from his house where…