Jones v. State

Appellant, Arthur “Tampa” Jones, was convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Jasper County, of the murder of Willie T. Plummer, Jr., in March 1955. There is no merit in appellant’s contentions that he was entitled to a peremptory instruction and the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence. On the contrary, his conviction is supported by the great *526weight of the evidence. The affray which resulted in Plummer’s death occurred in a small negro cafe in the Town of Heidelberg. All of the persons in the cafe at the time of the killing, other than appellant and…