Jenkins v. State

From a sentence of death the plaintiff in error appeals to this Court, assigning as' error the inconclusive nature of the evidence as to premeditated design in a prosecution brought against him for murder in the first degree of which he was found guilty.

Like Moses, the Biblical character, whose justifiable killing of the Egyptian (Exodus' 2: 11-15) was followed by the concealment of the victim’s body in order to avoid arrest and execution for his deed, the defendant in this case, in his version of the homicide, which is uncontradicted, admitted that after the killing the negro woman with whom…