Davis v. State

Willie Joe Davis, Roosevelt Davis and Eddie Long were jointly indicted for the murder of J. W. Weed, it being alleged that the crime was committed "after deliberation and premeditation, and with the felonious intent then and there to rob J. W. Weed.” * * * There was a severance, and Willie Joe Davis and Eddie Long were separately tried and each convicted of murder in the first degree, and they have appealed from judgments sentencing them to death. Separate trials were had, and separate appeals have been prosecuted, but the questions presented are sufficiently similar to be disposed of in a…