Hamilton v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Hughes county for the crime of murder and his punishment fixed at death.

The record discloses that the defendant is a negro residing at the town of Wetumka. On April 10, 1926, Mitchell Compier, of advanced years, a deputy sheriff, and Weldon Wilson, 22 years old, acting as a night policeman at Wetumka, set out to procure evidence concerning the illicit sale of intoxicating liquor. They drove into the negro section of the town and procured defendant to get them a pint of whisky. He went away and later…