Butler v. State

Appellant W; T. Butler was convicted in the Circuit Court of Holmes County of the murder of W. W. Wynn, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. On this appeal from that judgment of conviction he argues several assignments of error, but we will consider only one, since the case must be reversed on that proposition and remanded for a new trial.

According to the State’s evidence the murder occurred in the early night of October 8, 1951. Wynn’s body was not found until the afternoon of the following Sunday, October 14. It was lying in an overturned jeep below a high wooden bridge on a rural…