Westberry v. State

At the November term, 1930, of the superior court of Lowndes County, the jury trying the case of the State v. Austin Westberry returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation. In the indictment other defendants were jointly charged with murder, but Austin Westberry was tried alone. A motion for a new trial was made, and to the original motion a number of grounds were added by amendment. Upon the hearing of the motion the court overruled the same, and the defendant excepted.

A more elaborate statement of the facts in this case is contained in the report of the case of Allen Westberry, who…