McCoy v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

Early in the morning of Monday, the 28th of July, 1924, J. W. Rowell, Sr., a man of about ninety years of age, while out in the lot, received blows upon the head which rendered him unconscious, in which condition he remained until his death which soon followed from the effect of the blows. The state took the position that the appellant was the offender and that the motive was robbery. Appellant interposed the defense of alibi, claiming to have been in the town of Shreveport, Louisiana,…