Wright v. State

The appellant Lawrence Wright was jointly indicted with Percy Flemings for the murder of Winfield Bates, a negro taxi driver who was found dead in his taxicab at the side of the road at nig’ht, after having been beaten to death by Flemings with a piece of iron, which the appellant Wright had procured at a box factory late that afternoon for use in this contemplated assault upon their intended victim, for the purpose of robbery. The defendants were tried separately and sentenced to suffer the penalty of death. Neither the sufficiency nor the competency of the evidence, including the full, free…