State v. Leonard

McCALEB, Justice.

Appellant, a Negro, was .prosecuted for the murder of Claude Bean, another Negro, whom he shot and killed on March 13, 1954. After the killing, appellant signed a statement in which he declared, among other things, that the deceased, who was a collector for a burial insurance company in which appellant’s wife had a policy, came to his home located two miles west of Greensburg, Louisiana; that, while- there, he made physical advances on his wife, finally jamming her behind a heater in the front room; that, at this point, appellant emerged from a back room with a single-barrel…