Wade v. State

Will Wade appeals from a conviction of the murder of H. L. Jones, city marshal of Pickens, and a sentence of death.

The facts and circumstances of the homicide are substantially as follows: About 11 o’clock on a Saturday night in July, 1926, H. L. Jones, the marshal of Pickens, was shot in the abdomen, from which wound he died on the following Tuesday; The shooting occurred on the main street of Pickens, at a point where Mr. Jones, the marshal, operated a pressing- shop on the west side of the street, and a negro barber shop was located on the opposite side of the street. Mr. Jones was shot…