Rounds v. State

Mr. Chiee Justicie Green

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

The defendant, Robert Rounds, along -with, Odell Carter, both negroes, were indicted for tbe murder of a white man named Thomas Harris and convicted of murder in the first degree. The jury fixed the punishment of Carter at imprisonment for life and fixed the punishment of Bounds at death by electrocution. Carter accepted his sentence, but Rounds has appealed in error to this court.

Harris was a merchant having a country store about two miles from Humboldt on the Alamo road. ITis residence was nearby. The wife of Harris testified that…