Baylis v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Lawrence County of the crime of the murder of one J. W. James, and upon the jury’s being unable to agree as to the punishment he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. From that judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant is a negro and so was the deceased. The wound from which the deceased died was inflicted on a Saturday night. He lived until the next Monday morning about eleven o’clock, when he died as a result of the wound which was inflicted with a knife. The negroes had what is commonly known as a fish fry at…