Holmes v. State

The appellant was indicted at the February, 1928, term of the circuit court on a charge of murdering one Lemmie Ginn, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary.

It appears that the deceased, with a number of other boys, went to a swimming-hole in Bogue .Chitto River near 'Stallings Bridge, in Walthall county, on the day of the killing; that some time after the deceased and the other boys reached the swimming-hole, appellant and his brother, Melton Holmes came along’ the road in a buggy, and stopped at the swimming-hole; that appellant had been…