Jackson v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The parties involved are negroes. On the morning of the homicide appellant was moving away from Eliza Pinson’s home where he had been rooming. After placing his effects in a Mexican’s truck appellant went into the back yard where deceased was washing. We quote the testimony of a witness to the homicide as follows: “At that time she (deceased) had a sheet which was not open, and went to throw that sheet, on the line and this Jackson man came around the corner of the house and didn’t say a word to her, because I was standing there.…