Willingham v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

The appellant Joe Buck Willingham was indicted for the offense of murder in the first degree. The jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of thirty years. From the judgment and sentence he appealed.

The evidence for the State tended to show that appellant and his brother, James Willingham, engaged in a fight with the deceased, Deward L. Brown, in a combination tavern and dance hall; that James Willingham cut the deceased while appellant pinned the deceased’s arms behind him and deceased bled to death from the…