Taylor v. State

The plaintiff in error, E. T. Taylor, was convicted of the murder of Wade H. Belcher, and sentenced to be hanged. The deceased was assassinated while traveling along the public road near his home. There was evidence, that, two or three hours before the homicide, the accused quarreled with the deceased at the latter’s home and that the deceased ordered the accused from the premises; the accused left, armed himself with a pistol, and came to the shingle-mill of the deceased, inquired for him, using threatening language and vile epithets. Shortly thereafter the deceased came to the mill, tarried…