Davis v. State

This is an appeal from a death sentence on a conviction of murder.

The deceased, Raftakes, was a small retail merchant doing business in the city of Jackson. On November 19, 1933, while he, his wife, Mary Raftakes, his daughter, and Pearl "White, a nurse, were in Raftakes’ place of business, according to- the evidence, the appellant entered therein; Mary and the nurse then left the building, and according to the evidence of Mrs. Raftakes, the appellant asked the deceased to change a dollar for him. The deceased went to his cash drawer, in which there was forty-five dollars, and opened it,…