Woods v. State

William A. Woods was indicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County for the *183murder of Samuel Hughes. He was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment was assessed at fifteen' years in the State prison. The case is brought into this Court by an appeal in the nature of a writ of error. That the deceased, Samuel Hughes, was mortally wounded and killed by the defendant, William A. Woods, is a conceded fact.

Hughes was clerk and bartender for E. B. Ford, who was doing business in the city of Memphis. Woods was engaged in business near by. Between eight and nine o’clock…