Lee v. State

Appellant, J. L. Lee, jointly with John Lantrip, was indicted in the circuit court of Calhoun county on a charge of murdering one Ellis Sledge. Upon a separate trial, Lee was convicted and sentenced to serve a life term in the State Penitentiary, from which he prosecutes this appeal.

The testimony is voluminous, and will not be set out in detail. The killing of Ellis Sledge by J. L. Lee occurred at night on September 13, 1935, about 2:30 or 3 A. M. The testimony is conflicting, that in support of the State’s theory being to the effect that a number of witnesses heard a series of shots in rapid…