Webb v. State

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Lafayette County for tbe crime of murder in tbe first degree, and on tbe trial of tbe case tbé jury rendered a verdict finding appellant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment, and judgment was rendered on the verdict for the imposition of the punishment of electrocution.

Appellant is a negro, and the charge against him is the killing of another negro named Elmond Green by striking Mm with a gun-barrel. The Mlling occurred at night near the home of a negro woman named Mary Ford, where there was a small social gathering…