Lockett v. State

Oscar Lockett and Clint Mays were jointly indicted for the murder of Ray Payne by shooting him with a pistol.

After severance the defendant Oscar Lockett was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death.

The evidence for the state tended to show:

The deceased, a police officer of the city of Birmingham, upon request went to the pressing shop of one Loveless on Avenue H and there arrested one Brown. Loveless followed the officer with his prisoner around on Fifteenth street, questioned his authority to make the arrest, leading to a personal encounter between him and the…