Smith v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellants were convicted for the murder of Wash Allen and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary.

Appellants were jointly indicted by the grand jury of Cass County at the December term, 1948, with the offense of murder with malice by hitting and beating Wash Allen with a wrench handle. The homicide occurred on a country road between Atlanta and Bloomburg, in Cass County, on November 3, 1948. The state relies for conviction largely upon confessions signed by the defendants shortly after the homicide. Both are Negroes, about twenty-six years of age at the time of the…