Bailey v. State

Ingram, Bailey and Handy were indicted in Calhoun superior court for the murder of King, and were put upon trial under a plea of not guilty. The record discloses substantially the following state of facts revealed by the testimony introduced in behalf of the State: King was the general agent of the owner of the land upon which he was living, having under his superintendence the farm. Ingram, also a white man, was living on the same place as an employee of the owner, and Bailey and Handy were negro laborers or renters upon the same land. In the early part of the night of October 31,1897, King…