Winton v. State

Clayton Winton, a colored hoy, twenty years of age, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, shot and killed John Oakley, a deputy sheriff, on the night of December 30, 1922, at the home of his parents about one mile north of Watertown, in Wilson county.

*179Defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree, and was put to trial at the April, 1923, term of the criminal court.

The jury being unable to agree, a mistrial was entered, and he was again put to trial at the January, 1924, term, when the jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree with mitigating circumstances, and fixed his…