Riggins, Alias Wiggins v. State

Appellant was a negro, who worked for a drug store opposite where the assaulted party, Jacobi, clerked in a store. Appellant had been in the habit of passing through the store in which Jacobi clerked until a short time before the assault, when Jacobi caught him stealing some peaches and charged him with it. They had a violent, wordy altercation, and defendant indulged in serious threats against Jacobi. Jacobi slept in the rear of the store building—his bed being close to a window, and this window opened upon an alley running in the rear of the store. On the night of the 28th of July, while…