Kimball v. State

The defendant was charged with murder, and was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

It appears from the evidence, that W. A. Gibbs, his son Marcus Gibbs, John Allen Dozier, Horace Jennings, and Sam Fitzgerald congregated in Rochelle, and all came together in Sam Fitzgerald’s Ford coupé to Fitzgerald to visit various drinking joints, club houses, and the fair. They met the late George C. Wilcox, a relative and friend, at the fair. All had been drinking, except perhaps Horace Jennings. All five, with…