Byrd v. State

In the circuit court of Simpson county, appellant was convicted of the murder of Bilbo Cox, and, the jury having agreed on the punishment, he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.

There was but one witness in chief for the state. This witness was Burkett Neely, a half-brother of the de ceased, Bilbo Cox. The testimony of this witness is': That he and the deceased went, a little after six o’clock on Christmas Eve of 1928, from their home in Braxton to the town of D’Lo, and that they were around the said town with “a hunch of fellows” until some time after midnight, when they started home.…