State v. Williams

It appears from the evidence that, about November 11, 1917, several policemen, while engaged in another matter, observed a crowd gathered in an alley at some distance, and drove in their automobile to that locality; and found in the center two colored men, who had been fighting. The defendant was leaning against a coal shed, and the other was lying on the ground, éach blaming the other, and each bloody. Both were arrested and taken to the police station; and, as they started up the steps, a revolver dropped from defendant’s clothes to the ground. He declared at first that the other negro had…