Jones v. State

HarL J.

W. F. Jones was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree, and his punishment was assessed by the jury at a term of twenty-one years in the State penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction a writ of error has been duly prosecuted to this court. The circumstances of the killing, as detailed by the witnesses for the' State, are substantially as follows :

The defendant, W. F. Jones, was a sub-renter of the deceased, Horace Swearingen. Coot McAnnally, a brother-in-law of Horace Swearingen, went to the defendant Jones’s house, about sun-up the morning of the killing to collect…