Mickle v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.—In

this case appellant was convicted in the District Court of Galveston County of the offense of murder and his ^ punishment fixed at death.

Appellant is a negro and was convicted of the murder of a white man under such circumstances as to make it a case in which race feeling and prejudice could very easily play a prominent part in the disposition of the case. The parties to the killing were strangers to each other as far as the record discloses. Deceased was a street .car conductor and his car was boarded on the night of November 15, 1917 by the appellant, who was eating a…