Robinson v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and the extreme penalty of death imposed.

The evidence for the state tends to show that deceased, Grover Boyd, was shot by both- Ollis and John Robinson, sons of defendant, at or about the same time that Ollis and Esau, another son of defendant, were engaged in a difficulty with Clarence Boyd, a nephew of deceased, and in which defendant had participated, though he struck no blow (having only a stick in his hands and fired no shot), but was turned hack by deceased, who, it seems, was going to the rescue of his nephew; that all of this arose…