Vann, Alias Vance v. State

DAVIDS OH, Presiding Judge.

Appellant (a hack driver) was convicted for the murder of A. J. Grimes (a policeman), and his punishment assessed at death. The statement of facts discloses that appellant had been arrested two or three times by deceased for violating the hack ordinance. By virtue of one of these arrests, under the writ of habeas corpus, this hack ordinance was declared void. These matters engendered some ill feeling between deceased and appellant; in fact the record discloses there seems to have been some feeling between the hack drivers on, one side and the policemen on the other.…