State v. Love

The prisoner was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree of killing a white man. It is not controverted that there was ample evidence before the jury, if believed, to justify the verdict. The exception on which a new trial is asked is based upon the following facts: There was evidence that six months before the homicide the prisoner, in July or August of last year, when the deceased passed by him, said to a bystander and looking at the deceased, “I will get the God-damned son of a bitch sooner or later.” There was evidence offered by the State that in the summer of 1920 there had…