McGinnis v. State

The above-numbered causes were consolidated and are being decided on the records made in the respective cases.

Lavelle McGinnis is alleged to have killed and murdered Bobby Moore on the twenty second day of November 1959. He was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and given the maximum sentence of twenty years in the state penitentiary. Prior to the trial his attorneys, former Governor J. P. Coleman and James E. Brown, who were representing the appellant in the place and stead of L. W. Brown, deceased, filed a petition under oath alleging that the appellant was mentally incapable of…