The People v. Vickers

Plaintiff in error was charged by the grand jury of Randolph county with the crime of murder and convicted of manslaughter. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment.

About midnight, August 12, 1926, John Alexander was killed in a disorderly house conducted by Curley Jones at Coulterville. The front room was used as a lunch room. There was a card table in the room, and Jones, Alexander, George Griffin and John Manning were sitting at the table playing cards during the two hours before the killing. Alexander sat with his back toward the front door, near which plaintiff in error…