State v. . Keaton

There is evidence on behalf of the State tending to show that on 19 January, 1933, the prisoner, George Keaton, shot and killed Annie Lee Thigpen under circumstances indicative of a mind fatally bent on mischief and a heart devoid of social duties. The deceased, a girl eighteen years of age, to whom the prisoner was evidently paying court, was on her way home from school when the prisoner, without apparent cause or provocation, shot her three times because “she had made his life miserable,” he said, and as she pleaded: “Please don’t shoot me.”

The homicide is not denied. The defense interposed…