Lee v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant, a negro, was charged with the murder of Johnson Henderson, another negro, and by the jury given a penalty of twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The State’s theory was that the killing was actuated by a robbery motive; that appellant struck the deceased with an iron bar on the head, and left the body on the railroad track near to the town of Petty, in Lamar County, and that a railroad train ran over the body, dismembering it, and scattering pieces of flesh and clothing for quite a distance on the track.

Appellant’s defense being a denial, and an offered alibi, as…