Gurley v. Tucker

Seven young men of the immediate community had gone to an abandoned house some time after nightfall during Christmas week for the purpose of engaging in a game of dice. A negro had accompanied them to keep up a fire. In about an hour four deputy sheriffs crashed into the room, and presenting their arms demanded in a menacing manner that all present put up their hands, which being done a search of their persons was conducted. In the course of events thereafter shortly ensuing, two of the young men, brothers named Gurley, were killed by the deputies, and it is for the death of one of them,…