Jackson v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Deceased, E. C. Cornelius, was night watchman in the town of Simonton. On the 19th of June, 1929, appellant, Caleb Williams and Johnnie Williams, Jr., all of whom were negroes, went in an automobile to a celebration near Simonton. In returning home they came through Simonton and stopped their car near a gin. According to the res gestae statement of deceased, appellant and his companions were creating a disturbance, and he went to their car and asked them to go home. He said that one of the parties jumped out of the car and shot…