Hamilton v. State

The defendant was indicted for. the murder of Walter Hansard. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death, *453and he has appealed. It appears that defendant and deceased had bad feeling between them, arising out of their attentions to the same young lady. They were both quite young men. The night before the killing occurred they attended a country church in company with young ladies. While at the church defendant and the lady he was with were interrupted by the turning of the window- blinds near where they sat. It was repeated more than once, and defendant thereupon…