Pollard v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for thirty years.

At the home of Sandy Heath there was a gathering of negroes at which the appellant, Henry Pollard, Jr., his brother, two sisters and another woman were present. About eight o’clock at night, the deceased, Everick Earl, his son, D. W. Earl, Argie Lee Thomas nd Alvin Brown came to the Heath home in an automobile. A sudden quarrel arose over the use of a pump for inflating an automobile tire. After the passage of some hot words, Everick Earl was struck with a knife in the hands of…