Hill v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Andrew Hill was convicted of murder and assessed the death penalty.

The crime is alleged to have been committed in Bowie County, Texas, on Highway 82 west of Texarkana on November 8, 1947, around eleven o’clock at night. There is no controversy in the statement of material facts. Two officers were patrolling the highway late on Saturday night for the purpose of keeping the peace. During the same night Andrew Hill, a negro twenty-two years of age, together with six other negro men and two girls whose names were unknown to him, left Tidwell’s beer joint on the highway about…