State v. Jackson

McFarland, justice.

Appellants R. E. Jackson, Earnest Spur-lock, Jessie Tillis, and John Henry Lewis Jones, hereinafter designated defendants or R. E. Jackson, Spurlock, Tillis and Jones, were tried by a jury along with Clem-mine Lee Jackson, also a defendant, hereinafter referred to as Clemmie Lee, for the crime of first-degree murder. The jury found defendants R. E. Jackson, Spurlock, Tillis and Jones guilty, and fixed sentence for the four at life imprisonment; and acquitted Clemmine Lee Jackson. The trial court denied defendants’ motion for a new trial. From the conviction and sentence,…