Williams v. State

BRADY, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of murder in the Circuit Court of Warren County, Mississippi, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal. The following pertinent facts constitute a retributive example that “wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.”

On the night of July 25, 1966, appellant was riding in an automobile driven by Curtis Lee Ennis, a twenty-two year old Negro man. The record discloses they were drinking corn whiskey and that they first went to Willie B. Naylor’s Cafe where they remained…