Tiger v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder with the death penalty assessed.

Besides appellant there were but two eyewitnesses to the killing, Will Carter and Mamie Chappel. Appellant did not testify. Mamie Chappel, by her own testimony, had been the “kept” woman of appellant for a long time, and until shortly before the killing. The killing occurred in her house. The deceased, Claude Hughes, was a white man; the appellant, a negro. The deceased was killed by being shot. Pour bullets struck him. One entered the front of his neck, a little to the right of the center, and went…