Jackson v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death.

The evidence offered by the state to prove the corpus delicti goes to show that on the night of May 24, 1930, at about 10 o'clock p. m., an attempt was made to rob the deceased, by a man dressed in striped overalls and a black shirt, masked with a red handkerchief over his face; that the overalls were of the same kind in general as those worn by Tom O'Neal, one of the state's witnesses, and Hatchett, both employees of the Blue Ribbon Oil Company; that W. T. Smith, the deceased, was in the act…