McNeer v. State

Appellant, Don McNeer, was jointly indicted with J. E. Brownlow for the murder of James Elbert Vance. Appellant was separately tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve ten years in the state penitentiary.

The jury was justified in finding the facts as next stated.

Four young men, James Elbert Vance, Bernard Blakeley, Pat Blakeley, and Lee Clanton Frazier, sometimes referred to as the Grenada County boys, ranging in age from 19 to 21 years, went to a beer joint known as the Red Robin, and located in Carroll County, to get beer and soft drinks. They had all previously had one or…