State v. Patterson

Allen Patterson, Henry Woods, and Pearl Myers, all negroes, and Mrs. Nancy Stewart Thompson, a white woman, were jointly indicted for the murder of D. G. Thompson, the husband of Mrs. Nancy Stewart Thompson, on August 31, 1932.

After. a preliminary hearing before the trial judge on the question of his present sanity, Allen Patterson was ordered to trial on the charge set forth in the indictment.

On the trial, defendant confessed that, because Mrs. Thompson offered him $500 from the insurance money on Thompson’s life, and a home for life, he went to the Thompson home at night, armed with…