People v. Keys

Clayton and Elizabeth Richardson learned during the evening of July 11, 1965, that their young grandchildren (the children of Mrs. Richardson’s daughter, Jo Anne Julian) were on the street unattended. Searching for the children, Elizabeth Richardson and a daughter-in-law knocked on the door of a neighborhood apartment where the children were last seen. The door was answered.by the defendant, John Keys, whom the Richardsons believed to have been “messing around” with Mrs. Julian. Mrs. Richardson testified she greeted the defendant as follows: “Where is my daughter, you black nigger?”1 Mrs.…