Stone v. State

This is an appeal from a death sentence upon a conviction of the murder of Sam Hale, a Negro of the age of approximately 83 years who lived with his wife on a plantation near Greenville. On December 22, 1949, deceased carried his wife to Greenville where she boarded a bus and went to Belzoni to spend the Christmas holidays with her relatives. He returned to his home late that afternoon and was never again seen alive by any of his neighbors. His wife returned home December 27 and, finding the door of their residence locked from the outside, she presumed that he was not at home and after…