Jones v. State

Wyatt, Justice.

1. The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder without a recommendation to mercy. The jury was authorized to find that the plaintiff in error freely and voluntarily made a confession in which he stated that he and Charlie Lewis King killed the deceased, he beating the deceased on the head with an ax and King with a piece of pipe; that they killed him in order to obtain food from the place of business where the deceased worked and was killed; that, after they killed the deceased, they carried him down to the woods and buried the body; that the confession was corroborated by…