Nolan v. State

Eberhardt, Presiding Judge.

"Cash” Vaughn, the deceased, and Johnnie Lankford, a son of the defendant Rosa Bell Nolan, became engaged in a fight at the coffee shop of the Jefferson Hotel on Pryor Street in Atlanta. The fight apparently arose from an argument concerning a girl named "Pinkie” whom the defendant referred to as her "play daughter.” The testimony from witnesses for the state indicated that the argument was short, that the two men "went together” in a fight and that Lankford pulled a gun from a paper sack just before the fight began. The deceased, Vaughn, held Lankford’s arm and the…